psalterium
Americannoun
plural
psalterianoun
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Etymology
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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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
Fol. 54a, Colophon: Explicit translacio soliloquiorum siue psalterij beatissimi Ieronimi eusebii presbiteri quod ad peticionem soffronij transtulit ut in epistolam ante psalterium impressa praemittitur etc.
From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Van Name, Addison
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
Omasum, ō-mā′sum, n. a ruminant's third stomach, the psalterium or manyplies.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Quum ergo venisset beatus Franciscus ad locum ubi erat ille novitius, dixit ille novitius: "Pater, mihi esset magna consolatio habere psalterium, sed licet generalis illud mihi concesserit, tamen vellem ipsum habere, pater, de conscientia tua."
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry
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