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. ).

 

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