psalmody
Americannoun
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the act, practice, or art of setting psalms to music.
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psalms or hymns collectively.
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the act, practice, or art of singing psalms.
noun
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the act of singing psalms or hymns
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the art or practice of the setting to music or singing of psalms
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Origin of psalmody
1300–50; Middle English < Late Latin psalmōdia < Greek psalmōidía singing to the harp. See psalm, ode, -y 3
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"Oh no," replied the well-known corporal, Rob Douglas, "I will only join in the psalmody."
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
"She has arranged that a considerable portion of it should be read, and with pious mind considered by all her ministers in the daily office of the sacred psalmody."
From Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures by Heuser, Herman J.
The whole mountain, we are told, trembles and bursts into psalmody when any one frees himself and reaches heaven.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
We do not have that sort of psalmody now.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander
Gradually, however, psalmody began to lose its hold on the Reformed churches, both in Europe and America, and hymnody gained the ascendancy.
From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin
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