dodecad

plural dodecads · alternative duodecad

1. A group or set of twelve.

   We have also examined some of the relations between the two dodecads of signs and houses.

   1903, H. S. Green, Theoretical Astrology, page 63

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   Plato at any rate assumed that the number twelve befitted the disembodied gods as a perfect number[...] This dodecad of the disembodied gods has been shown by us to proceed from on high triadically, but multiplied by four [...]

   1987, C.R. Long, Twelve gods of Greece and Rome, BRILL, →ISBN, page 117

   [...] the lowest pair of transcendent principles, all-begetter Savior and all-begettress Sophia, produced a dodecad of twelve equally paired powers, six male and six female.

   2001, John Douglas Turner, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, Presses Université Laval, →ISBN, page 207

   Marcos, according to Irenaeus, also assumed a decad of ten heavenly circles and a dodecad of twelve zodiacal signs. The dodecad represents evil, earthly fate, but the decad is "soul-producing," [...]

   1966, Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Spurious and Doubtful Works