pentecostys

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pentecostys - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pentecosty \Pen`te*cos"ty\, n.; pl. Pentecosties. [Gr. ?, fr.
     ? the fiftieth, ? fifty.] (Gr. Antiq.)
     A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also
     pentecostys. --Jowett (Thucyd. ).
     [1913 Webster] Pentelic