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Definition of Phylacteries
1. phylactery [n] - See also: phylactery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phylacteries
Literary usage of Phylacteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Testament Illustrations: Comprising Choice Selections, Anecdotes by William Basil Jones (1875)
"JEWISH phylacteries. But all their works they do for to be seen of men : they
make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The practice of wearing the phylacteries at stated moments is still regarded as
a sacred religious duty by the orthodox Jews ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The practice of wearing the phylacteries at stated moments is still regarded as
a sacred religious duty by the orthodox Jews. JAMES F. DRISCOLL. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The practice of wearing the phylacteries at stated moments is still regarded as
a sacred religious duty by the orthodox Jews. JAMES F. DRISCOLL. ..."
5. Jewish Services in Synagogue and Home by Lewis Naphtali Dembitz (1898)
"CHAPTER III FRINGES AND phylacteries THE fringed shawl and the phylacteries are
a sort of uniform which the good Israelite dons in the service of God. ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1900)
"The practice was, of course, regarded as having scriptural authority, but even
the details of the construction of the phylacteries were ascribed to a ..."
7. Primitive Psycho-therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence (1910)
"There were phylacteries for the head, reaching from one ear to the other, and
tied behind with a thong ; and phylacteries for the hand, fastened upon the ..."
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