phylacter

Noun

 * 1) * 1636,, 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
 * 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