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  • 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

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