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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PENTECOSTY

Pen `te *cos "ty, n.; pl. Pentecosties. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)

 

Defn: A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys. Jowett (Thucyd. ).