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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as phylacteric.

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Examples

  • So that the Canonists played the madmen with some reason, when they allowed the space, from the rising of the morning to the third hour of the day, for the phylacterical prayers; because those three-hour praying men scarcely despatched them within less space, pausing one hour before they began prayer, and as much after they were ended.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • For the hour of the phylacterical prayers being come, their care and endeavour was, to be taken in the streets: whereby the canonical hour compelling them to their prayers in that place, they might be the more seen by all persons, and that the ordinary people might admire and applaud both their zeal and religion.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Being a response, it was pronounced in the Temple by all with a loud voice; being an ejaculation, it was spoken in the phylacterical prayers, by every single man, in a very low voice.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Therefore you have in the conclusion a sign of the public use, by the agreement of it to the response in the Temple; and of the private, by the agreement of it to the ejaculation in the phylacterical prayers.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "Rabban Gamaliel recited his phylacterical prayers on the very night of his nuptials.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • "From what time do they recite their phylacterical prayers in the morning?

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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