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ennead|ˈɛniːæd|
[ad. Gr. ἐννεάς, ἐννεάδ-ος, f. ἐννέα nine.]
†1. The number nine. Obs.
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 384/1 The Ennead is the first square of an odd number.
2. A set of nine persons or things (discourses, points, etc.); spec. one of the six divisions in Porphyry's collection of Plotinus' works, each of which contains nine books.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 186 In his fifth Ennead..he makes the Universe a necessary Emanation of God. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 213 Though Tertullian be yet more Liberal, and encrease the Number to an Ennead. 1854Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2) 58, I disposed them, he [Porphyry] says, into 6 Enneads, gladly availing myself of the perfect numbers (6 and 9). 1870Prof. Cayley in Nature 29 Dec. 178/1 The name ‘ennead’ is given to any nine points in plano which are the intersections of 2 cubic curves: or to any nine lines through a point which are the intersections of two cubic curves. 1881Ch. Q. Rev. 172 The exquisite language of the prophecy of Isaiah, especially in its last three enneads. 1884E. A. T. W. Budge Babylon. Life & Hist. ix. 128 The most important ennead [of Gods] among the Babylonians was as follows.
Hence enneˈadic a. pertaining to an ennead. |