(n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it was the flaming pentacle that opened in the ground, or the way the holy water vaporised in David's shadow, who knows.
Pentagram
Definition:
(n.) A pentacle or a pentalpha.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a self-portrait from 1983, he poses in front of a pentagram with a machine-gun: Satan's terrorist.
(2) The theoretical distribution of signs permutations in tetragrams, pentagrams and hexagrams constitute the 'controls' with which the empirical data can be compared.
(3) Greaves said one potential design involves a pentagram, a satanic symbol, while another is meant to be an interactive display for children.
(4) In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon.