psalmist

From psalm +‎ -ist.

psalmist (plural psalmists)

1. A composer of psalms
   • 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Return of the Native , volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , published 1878, →OCLC, book I (The Three Women), page 157:

     An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.

2. (capitalized) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 25, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

     The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.

   • 1955 — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Third State of the Union Address

     Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.

• palmists, samplist, slipmats

Borrowed from French psalmiste. By surface analysis, psalm +‎ -ist.

psalmist m (plural psalmiști)

1. psalmist