See phylactery on Wiktionary
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"text": "'So,' says Calli impatiently, holding her head proudly, 'let's destroy the phylactery and let the lich rot in peace and then take the artefacts.'\n'It's not as simple as that,' says Joachim. 'The phylactery is the mask.'\nAn unnerving silence fills the room. The only way to destroy a lich permanently is to destroy the phylactery it uses to house its soul.",
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"text": "2017, Jason Paul McCartan, Through Dungeons Deeper: A Survival Guide For Dungeoneers: As Written by a Survivor, InfiniBadger Press, page 121,\nDestroying the lich without destroying the phylactery first just allows the lich to regenerate its body over time (or steal someone else's) and it really pisses them off. With the intense connection a lich has with its phylactery if it gets destroyed the lich will know instantly."
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"text": "On the other hand, the pseudo-dialogues inside the phylacteries introduce an ironic tone in narrative strips like Barlow's, but they are not a means of dramatization; it is as if the characters, instead of talking to each other, were talking to the reader in order to state their intentions, make witty comments, or explain the situation.",
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"ref": "2003, Avraham Steinberg, translated by Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics, Volume I, Feldheim Publishers, page 787:",
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"ref": "2007, Sharon Farmer, “17: Low Country Ascetics and Oriental Luxury: Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the Treasures of Oignies”, in Rachel Fulton Brown, Bruce W. Holsinger, editors, History in the Comic Mode, Columbia University Press, page 209:",
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"ref": "2006, Don Skemer, Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages, Pennsylvania State University Press, page 136n:",
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"ref": "2007, Tim Waggoner, Forge of the Mind Slayers, Wizards of the Coast, page 21:",
"text": "\"Heh. No. You're right about that. Often an object that was important to a lich in life serves as the phylactery, but it could be anything,\" Diran said.",
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"ref": "2011, J. L. Connew, Origins of the Geomancer, Xlibris, page 112:",
"text": "'So,' says Calli impatiently, holding her head proudly, 'let's destroy the phylactery and let the lich rot in peace and then take the artefacts.'\n'It's not as simple as that,' says Joachim. 'The phylactery is the mask.'\nAn unnerving silence fills the room. The only way to destroy a lich permanently is to destroy the phylactery it uses to house its soul.",
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"text": "2017, Jason Paul McCartan, Through Dungeons Deeper: A Survival Guide For Dungeoneers: As Written by a Survivor, InfiniBadger Press, page 121,\nDestroying the lich without destroying the phylactery first just allows the lich to regenerate its body over time (or steal someone else's) and it really pisses them off. With the intense connection a lich has with its phylactery if it gets destroyed the lich will know instantly."
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"ref": "2011, Robert S. Petersen, Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives, ABC-CLIO (Praeger), page 28:",
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"ref": "2013, Ana M. Gómez-Bravo, Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain, University of Toronto Press, page 80:",
"text": "That the inscribed rolls (also referred to as phylacteries, ribbons, banderoles, or scrolls) depicted in, for example, manuscript illuminations are signs of a residual orality that would work much like a speech balloon is an interpretation challenged not only by codicolgical and diplomatic evidence, however scant, but further by the use of hands in the iconography of the period.",
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"text": "On the other hand, the pseudo-dialogues inside the phylacteries introduce an ironic tone in narrative strips like Barlow's, but they are not a means of dramatization; it is as if the characters, instead of talking to each other, were talking to the reader in order to state their intentions, make witty comments, or explain the situation.",
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"sense": "small leather case",
"word": "tefilla"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "filacteri"
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
"word": "經匣 /经匣"
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"neuter"
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"masculine"
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"word": "phylactère"
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"neuter"
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"word": "Phylakterion"
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"masculine"
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"word": "φυλακτήριον"
},
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"code": "he",
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"word": "טוטפת"
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"word": "תפילין"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"word": "filatterio"
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"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"neuter"
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"word": "phylactērium"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "leather case containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men; the tefilla",
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"masculine"
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"word": "filactério"
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"sense": "small object worn for its magical power; amulet or charm",
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"word": "phylactère"
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