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psalmodic, a.|sælˈmɒdɪk|
[f. Gr. type *ψαλµῳδικ-ός (cf. late Gr. ψαλµῳδικῶς, Eustathius c 1160): see psalmody and -ic, and cf. F. psalmodique.]
Of or pertaining to psalmody; having the style or character of psalmody. loosely = psalmic.
1749Numbers in Poet. Comp. 31 Psalmodic Musick thus improved comes nearer to Recitative. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xlv. (1840) III. 148 The..design was..to accommodate every part of the service to the psalmodic tone. 1823Byron Juan xi. lvii, Pegasus has a psalmodic amble. 1898J. Robertson Poetry & Relig. Ps. xiii. 323 The books of Nahum and Habakkuk have each a chapter entirely psalmodic in construction.
So psalmodial |-ˈməʊdɪəl|, psalmodical |-ˈmɒ-| adjs.
1848K. H. Digby Compitum I. 315 Their language became psalmodial. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. 170 If Queen Elizabeth patronized Cathedral Music exclusively, she did not interdict Psalmodical. [Cf. quot. 1774 above.] |