psalmodize

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English

Etymology

From psalmody +‎ -ize.

Verb

psalmodize (third-person singular simple present psalmodizes, present participle psalmodizing, simple past and past participle psalmodized)

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

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