psalmodistn.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. 234 The writers of these Hagiographa might be termed Psalmodists.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. i. 15 Plato's Rapsodist..seems exactly parallel to..the Jewish Psalmodist.

1843 tr. Voltaire Philos. Dict. II. 287 How could it happen, that no Jewish writer, no Jewish prophet, or Jewish psalmodist, should have once cited that terrestrial paradise which we are talking of every day of our lives?

1886 W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XX. 29/1 He [sc. Solomon] is not recognized as a psalmodist by the most ancient tradition.

1915 J. Huneker New Cosmopolis 134 How many visitors..have admired this woman [sc. Bathsheba] who tempted the royal psalmodist!

1967 Harvard Theol. Rev. 60 362 In another instance,..the psalmodist says: ‘These (the enemies) sink down and fall.’

1988 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 107 750 The theme of the penitence and confession of this notorious sinner..was a popular subject for Jewish psalmodists.

1712 J. Burroughs (title) The devout psalmodist. II sermons. I. Concerning singing psalms with devotion and melody. II. Shewing the indecency and irreverence of sitting at the singing of solemn praises to God.]

1735 W. Tansur (title) The royal psalmodist compleat.

1764 A. Williams (title) The universal psalmodist. Containing..a choice and valuable collection of psalm and hymn tunes.

1812 J. Read in Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel (1918) 28 May 8/3 (title) The New England selection, or plain psalmodist.

1855 Biblical Repertory July 481 The Board is authorized to add to such tunes and hymns as may be adopted from the ‘Psalmodist’.

1860 Ladies' Repository Dec. 764/1 (advt.) The Presbyterian Psalmodist.

1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers I. ii. iii. 190 Having obtained from that benevolent personage the loan of his horses, for whose use,..the psalmodist was fully empowered to bargain with him.

1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. III. 495 The English Psalmodists, Cox, Whittingham, Heath, and others, were at work in this reign.

1935 Musical Q. 21 198 Some nineteen years later, Andrew Law, another New England psalmodist, brought out a composition with an acknowledgement to Handel.

1951 M. Curti Growth Amer. Thought (ed. 2) iii. 66 Francis Hopkinson..achieved a wide reputation as a psalmodist by virtue of his adaptation of the Psalms of David for the Dutch Reformed church in New York.

1999 Notes 55 844 Psalmodists such as Isaac Woodbury, church musicians and composers such as Nathaniel Gould, and pedagogues such as Lowell Mason all receive Moore's attention.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms Pref. sig. A3^v The spirits and inflamed affections, and voices of Psalmodists.

1712 J. Burroughs (title) The devout psalmodist... Concerning singing Psalms with devotion and melody.

1740 Univ. Spectator 19 July 1/3 A young Man, who was a Member of a Society of Psalmodists.

1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 370 Like a company of psalmodists in a country church.

1823 W. Scott Peveril in Waverley Novels (1855) VII. 344 A scornful laugh, raised to as much height as the scoffers' lungs would permit, in order that it might carry to the psalmodists the contempt of their auditors.

1979 N. Temperley Mus. of Eng. Parish Church I. vi. 179 The essence of the psalmodists' method was that they claimed..to be able to teach people how to sing from notes in a short time.

1996 R. M. Wilson Anglican Chant & Chanting in Eng., Scotl. & Amer., 1660–1820 vi. 163 Improvement in congregational singing was brought about in large measure by men who filled the ranks of a new cadre of singing masters, also called psalmodists.

1726 J. Henley Primitive Liturgy 11 Let the Psalmodist say, To the praise of God, let us sing a Part of the —— Psam [sic], verse the —— &c.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 400 The Canonists make nine Orders in the Church, reckoning the Psalmodist and the Tonsura into the Number.