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Definition of Ogdoad
1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one.
Generic synonyms: Digit, Figure
Definition of Ogdoad
1. n. A thing made up of eight parts.
Definition of Ogdoad
1. Noun. A thing made up of eight parts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ogdoad
1. a group of eight [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ogdoad
Literary usage of Ogdoad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1893)
"Only this "likeness" and the ogdoad itself is a blind, just as in the seven
creations of the Vishnu Purana, to which two more are added, of which the eighth ..."
2. Thrice-greatest Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis by Hermes (1906)
"Tat now desires to hear the Praise-giving of the Powers, which only those can
sing who have reached the stage called Eighth, or the ogdoad; this is the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by Henry Wace (1880)
"In the system of VALENTINUS again the names ogdoad and ... Above these heavens
is the ogdoad, also called rj ju«o4^njs, and Jerusalem above, ..."
4. An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons and by James Beaven (1841)
"From them he learnt to believe in an ogdoad of emanations from the Supreme Being,
from one of the later of whom, by a species of accident, evil sprung. ..."
5. Horæ Mosaicæ: Or, A Dissertation on the Credibility and Theology of the by George Stanley Faber (1818)
"... were the demon-gods of the Gentiles, the recollection of this -celebrated
ogdoad has been duly preserved in several of their mythological systems. ..."
6. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"For, in the first place, if it had been John's intention to set forth that ogdoad
above, he would surely have preserved the order of its production, ..."
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