Noun

(reliquaries)

A container to hold or display religious relics.

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, title=The Norwich Victims , chapter=4/1 citation , passage=“… There is an ivory virgin of the fourteenth century. I once found a buyer for that piece, but the old boy would not sell it.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 13, author=Holland Cotter, title=To Bump Off Art as He Knew It, work=New York Times citation

, passage=And whether you think of those little cans as intellectual puzzles or reliquaries or scams, there are surprises inside.}}

(label) An object that sustains the memory of past people or events.

Noun

(phylacteries)

(Judaism) Either of the two small leather cases, containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer; the tefilla.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:

They sett abroade there philateris , and make large borders on there garmenttes, and love to sytt uppermooste at feastes [...].

* 2005 , Edward Mack, Phylactery, Nextbible.[http://net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Phylactery]

"Every male, who at the age of 13 becomes a "son of the Law" (bar mitswah), must wear the phylactery and perform the accompanying ceremonial."

Any small object worn for its magical or supernatural power; an amulet or charm.

* 2006 , Don Skemer, Binding Words Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages . Penn State Press, 2006. p. 136n:[http://books.google.com/books?id=o-5VpyGAHSgC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136&dq=phylactery+flemish&source=web&ots=5KqLz4kA0W&sig=s0Z66YfpuEyrKr72Ffu3fAEq7ns]

"According to the decreta issued by the archbishop of Utrecht in 1372-75, the word phylactery pertained either to amulets on separate sheets or to entire books."