Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A phylactery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A phylactery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
phylactery .
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Then, before starting, I took a quick tour though the multiple wiki's set up as reader's guides, but decided that if I was going to take the time to read this hulking book, and it really is hulking, I would take the (small amount of) time to Google things like who Dennis Gabor is - and lookup words like "phylacter" (p. 47) myself.
E.A. Hanks: On Reading "Infinite Jest," Part 1 E.A. Hanks 2011
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