Definition of Enneads

1. ennead [n] - See also: ennead

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enneads

enmoving
enmuffle
enmuffled
enmuffles
enmuffling
enmure
enmured
enmures
enmuring
ennage
ennages
ennation
ennea-
ennead
enneadic
enneads (current term)
enneagon
enneagonal
enneagons
enneagram
enneagrams
enneagynous
enneahedral
enneandria
enneandrous
enneapetalous
enneastyle
enneatical
ennemie

Literary usage of Enneads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Hibbert Lectures by Hibbert Trust (1880)
"Triads and enneads. In the principal temple of each province, the chief deity was associated with other gods; hence the expression ..."

2. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lectures Delivered on by James Henry Breasted (1912)
"They say, ' Our brother here comes to us,' say the two Divine enneads concerning Osiris ... say the two Divine enneads concerning thee, O king Osiris ..."

3. Quests for Salvation in New Testament Times by Charles James Ritchey (1922)
"Plotinus: enneads IV. 9. 3. 86. Plotinus: enneads III. 6. 6. 87. The philosophy of the Hermetic literature and of Philo is not treated here. ..."

4. The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine (1874)
"Porphyry, next to the author of the "enneads," was the most renowned amongst the adepts of Neo-Platonism, ..."

5. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1870)
"Three enneads we are here, and three enneads of very thick darts with each man of us, and every one who reaches the Bridge of Trial [? ..."

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