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psalmodist|ˈsɑːmədɪst, ˈsælm-|
[f. psalmody + -ist, or f. psalmodize: see -ist.]
1. One who practises or is skilled in psalmody; a singer of psalms.
1659Hammond On Ps. Pref. ⁋2 The Spirits and inflamed Affections, and Voices of Psalmodists. 1740Univ. Spectator 19 July 1/3 A young Man, who was a Member of a Society of Psalmodists. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio III. 370 Like a company of psalmodists in a country church.
b. = psalmist 2. ? Obs.
1726J. Healey Prim. Liturgy 11 Let the Psalmodist say, To the praise of God, let us sing a Part of the ― Psalm, verse the ― &c. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 400 The Canonists make nine Orders in the Church, reckoning the Psalmodist and the Tonsura into the Number.
†2. A writer of psalms: = psalmist 1. Obs.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 252 The writers of these Hagiographa might be termed psalmodists. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. i. 15 Plato's Rapsodist..seems exactly parallel to..the Jewish Psalmodist. 1886W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XX. 29/1 He [Solomon] is not recognized as a psalmodist by the most ancient tradition.
b. The author of a metrical version or paraphrase of the Psalms for singing: cf. psalmody 1 b.
1885Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. III. 495 note, The English Psalmodists, Cox, Whittingham, Heath, and others, were at work in this reign. |