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- noun the
pentacle
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Possibly Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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What is the most powerful name of God on the pentaculum?
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
mollusque commented on the word pentaculum
. . . the furrows, changing direction imperceptibly, would widen to form a breach, a groove with radial symmetry--like the outline of a mandala or pentaculum, a star, a mystic rose.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucaults's Pendulum, p. 4
September 29, 2008