psalterium
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Origin of psalterium
1855–60; < Late Latin psaltērium the Psalter, the folds of the omasum being likened to the leaves of a book
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He made also a great Psalter, magnum psalterium, superior to any contained in the monastery, except the glossed ones.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner
The dulcimer differed from the psalterium or psaltery chiefly in the manner of playing, the latter having the strings plucked by means of fingers or plectrum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
The deerlets possess no psalterium or third stomach, except in a rudimentary form, and their feet approximate to those of the pigs, and they are destitute of horns.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
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