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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)
- (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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