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pentagram
[ pen-tuh-gram ]
noun
- a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc.
pentagram
/ ˈpɛntəˌɡræm /
noun
- a star-shaped figure formed by extending the sides of a regular pentagon to meet at five points
- such a figure used as a magical or symbolic figure by the Pythagoreans, black magicians, etc
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Other Words From
- pen·ta·gram·mat·ic [pen, -t, uh, -gr, uh, -, mat, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pentagram1
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Example Sentences
About ten minutes later, he stood at an altar in front of a nearly five-foot, lit-up pentagram.
One of those men was Jake Ferguson—a drugged-out ex-criminal with natty dreadlocks and a pentagram tattooed on his forehead.
It was to the Pentagram Circle that I first broached the new conceptions that were developing in my mind.
Pentagram, pen′ta-gram, n. a five-pointed star: a magic figure so called.
By producing each side of this latter figure the five-pointed star (fig. 9), known as the pentagram, is obtained.
For you the circle has not been traced nor the pentagram fixed, for you no law has been thrust down.
Working together, we had once carved a pentagram in the side of this tree-trunk.
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