Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pentecosty \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. ).