phylacter
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]phylacter (plural phylacters)
- Obsolete form of phylactery.
- 1636, George Sandys, Christ's Passion (Annotations)
- Men full of appearing sanctity , observant to traditions , and skilful expositors of the Mosaical Law , wearing the precepts thereof in phylacters (narrow scrolls of parchment) bound about their brows and above their left elbows
- 1636, George Sandys, Christ's Passion (Annotations)
References
[edit]- “phylacter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.