Definitions for phylactery

phylactery phy·lac·ter·y

Spelling: [fi-lak-tuh-ree]
IPA: /fɪˈlæk tə ri/

Phylactery is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 650 anagrams from letters in phylactery (acehlprtyy).

Definitions for phylactery

noun

  1. Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  2. (in the early Christian church) a receptacle containing a holy relic.
  3. an amulet, charm, or safeguard against harm or danger.

Origin of phylactery

1350-1400; Late Latin phylactērium Greek phylaktḗrion outpost, safeguard, amulet, equivalent to phylak-, stem of phylássein to protect, guard + -tērion noun suffix denoting place; replacing M

Examples for phylactery

This phylactery, itself "medicine," may be employed to enwrap other "medicine" and thus augment its own potentiality.

The first phylactery which it was my good fortune to be allowed to examine was one worn by Ta-ul-tzu-je, of the Kaytzentin gens.

I do not know how Kirstie became convinced that, whoever or whatever the enemy might be, Mr. Johnstone was the phylactery.

Herein he has sense enough to know that only in kabrit (sulphur) is the phylactery which destroys the phylloxera.

Philemo once asked Rabbi (the Holy), "If a man has two heads, on which is he to put the phylactery?"

There is no phylactery against the poor opinion of one's grandchildren.

"Entertainment for Pilgrims" ought to be bound round it as a sort of phylactery.

Another 'phylactery' consisted of a tiny bag of hoddentin, holding a small quartz crystal and four feathers of eagle-down.

If Peter Faneuil made not broad his phylactery, he made broad that mantle of charity, which covereth a multitude of sins.

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