phylacter

English

Noun

phylacter (plural phylacters)

1. 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

References

• “phylacter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.