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pentangle|ˈpɛntæŋg(ə)l|
Also 7–9 pentagle.
[In form a hybrid f. Gr. πεντα- penta- + angle; but, in sense 1, perhaps an accommodated form of pentagle, in origin a variant of pentacle.]
1. = pentacle, pentagram, pentalpha.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 620 Then þay schewed hym þe schelde þat was of schyr goulez, Wyth þe pentangel de-paynt of pure golde hwez;..Hit is a syngne þat Salamon set sumquyle, In bytoknyng of trawþe, bi tytle þat hit habbez, For hit is a figure þat haldez fyue poyntez, And vche lyne vmbelappez and loukez in oþer, And ay quere hit is endelez, and Englych hit callen Ouer-al, as I here, þe endeles knot. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. x. 42 They are afraid of the pentangle [ed. 1650 pentagle] of Solomon [margin (ed. 1650), 3 triangles interserted and made of five lines]. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Impr. (1746) 67 Diet is defined..an exact Order in Labour, Meat, Drink, Sleep, and Venery: for they are thought to be Pythagoras his Pentangle or five squar'd Figure. 1827W. G. S. Excurs. Vill. Curate 128 Had I but shown him the pentagle of Solomon, or the Chaldee Tetragrammaton,..how the fiend would have howled at me in vain.
2. = pentagon. rare.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 997 The water Gras⁓hopper of Rondoletius, whose head is like a pentangle, having as it were five corners. 1701Moxon Math. Dict., Pentagon..is a Geometrical Figure having five Angles... Pentangle, the same, only a Greek and Latin word joyned. |