psalmodize
verbEtymology From psalmody + -ize.
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Ambitransitive To write or sing psalms.
- the psalmodizing arta. 1769, John Gilbert Cooper (translating Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset), "Ver-Vert" Canto 2
- if their [the Jews'] religion had been the established religion, the aforesaid psalmodising would have been characterized with the name of "mauscheln".1871, Heinrich Heine, translated by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel:
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- the singers seem to be psalmodizing among themselves,1904, American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 30, number 2:
- Related terms
- psalmody