Decad

Corrections made to printed original. page 300, "The duad represented the line" - original reads 'decad', making no sense in view of what follows. ❋ Various (1852)

The allocation section of the Waxman Markey bill, also called the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), aims to distribute permits representing our national greenhouse gas emissions for decad ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

American passenger trains have lagged behind those in Europe and Asia for decad ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

To express the numbers '11' through '16', Etruscans used the numerals of the first decad followed by the word for '10' which is śar. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Gvozdanović's Indo-European Numerals, Robert Coleman suggests an assimilation of *k with preceding voiced resonants in some decad words like 'seventy' or 'ninety'. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ynet reports today, In the last decad, sic kosher food sales in American supermarkets have reached a growth rate of 15 percent as opposed to a four percent growth rate for food that is not kosher. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Theology of Arithmetic may have been most influential in its attempt to set up an equivalence between the pagan gods and the numbers in the decad, which was picked up later by Iamblichus and Proclus (Kahn 2001, 116). ❋ Huffman, Carl (2006)

It is said rightly, too, that the number of the sheep and of the dogs is the same number if the two numbers are equal, but not the same decad or the same ten; just as the equilateral and the scalene are not the same triangle, yet they are the same figure, because they are both triangles. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

Therefore the number of two groups also-is the same number (for their number does not differ by a differentia of number), but it is not the same decad; for the things of which it is asserted differ; one group are dogs, and the other horses. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

For in the numbers the infinite in the direction of reduction is not present, as the monad is the smallest; nor is the infinite in the direction of increase, for the parts number only up to the decad. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

  "She dreamt it up and has made it one of the best-selling magazines of the decad el Turning her back on all that will be like dying a little -- can't he see that?" ❋ Lamb, Charlotte, 1937- (1991)

She sat for barely a decad before Arion came clanking around a corner, along with a utility robot with a bulky laser torch strapped on his back. ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1987)

Let a third decad also be added (that nothing may be left unsaid in this matter), giving examples of the parts of the phrase distinctly and by themselves: ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

The other decad shall show the phrase applied to things: ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

One might produce thousands of examples out of their writings: we will only offer a double decad; the first, whence the frequent use of this word may appear; the second, whence the sense may: ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Unlimited, as its pairs are not logically or derivatively related, and as they are obviously padded to reach the number of the decad Aristotle is doubtless correct in thinking theirs only a later variant of the original doctrine. ❋ JAMES PHILIP (1968)

So too there is a decad prior to the subject in which we affirm it; this prior would be the decad absolute, for certainly the thing in which the decad is observed is not that absolute. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Decadence is the precursor to [extinction]. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)

The [years] 2000-2009 are a decade. ❋ 5'11"racer (2006)

[What a] decadent [box] of [cookies]. ❋ Shoe Sock You (2007)

[Richard] has many [wonderful] recipes if you're into [decadence]... ❋ Master Chief 1944 (2020)

That [rich] [asshole] is pretty [decadent]. ❋ Vamos (2004)

Man:"Wow, that [A Cappella group] was great! Who are they?" [Woman]:"Oh, that's DeCadence!" Man:"THE DeCadence?" Woman:"Yes!" Man:"WOW! They must be [the greatest] A Cappella group around!" Woman:" Yes! Of course they are!" ❋ C. Longinus (2011)

"Dude, there's no use in making a 'best of this decade' [list] when there's still a [year] to [come in] this decade!" ❋ Serr Heele (2010)

Snobby [complainer]: words are starting to be used differently and couples are having anal sex which is wrong even though is is safe and usually consensual. And Mexicans are coming in and threatening to destroy our trafitional values [whatever that means].Oh the [decadence]. Soon our civilization will decay into anarchy. ❋ The Funny One (2017)

Older and more mature now, we sat around the bonfire and laughed our heads off as we [dived] [nostalgically] into the [decadence] of 1999. ❋ Mohit Hira (2009)

The [decadence] displayed in [Berlin] during [the great depression] truely reflects the ideology of Decadism. ❋ Vernonat (2018)