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psalmodize en · VERB

Etymology

From psalmody + -ize.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To write or sing psalms.
   • the psalmodizing art a. 1769, John Gilbert Cooper (translating Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset), "Ver-Vert" Canto 2
   • the singers seem to be psalmodizing among themselves, 1904, American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 30, number 2:
   • if their [the Jews'] religion had been the established religion, the aforesaid psalmodising would have been characterized with the name of "mauscheln". 1871, Heinrich Heine, translated by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel:

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psalmody