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‖ pentalpha|pɛnˈtælfə|
[a. Gr. πένταλϕα, a synonym of πεντάγραµµον pentagram, f. πέντε five + ἄλϕα the letter Alpha or α; from its presenting the form of an A in five different positions.]
= pentagram, pentangle 1.
1818Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 344 We often see English shepherds cutting the pentalpha..in the turf, although they never heard of Antiochus, or saw his coin, and although they are ignorant of its mystic power. 1820D. Turner Tour Normandy I. 179 The produced pentagon, or combination of triangles, sometimes called the pentalpha. 1855E. Smedley Occult Sciences 61 The salutary ‘pentalpha’..should be written on the stable doors. |