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psalmodize, v.|ˈsɑːmədaɪz, ˈsælm-| [ad. med.L. psalmōdizāre (Du Cange), f. psalmōdi-a: see -ize.] intr. To practise psalmody; to sing psalms. Hence ˈpsalmodizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 620 Secular chanons, of great humilitie, To synge and psalmodise oure sauiour vnto. 1759J. G. Cooper tr. Gresset's Ver-vert ii. 45 In short, the bird perform'd his part In all the psalmodising art. 1817Lady Morgan France (1818) II. vii. 173 A kind of nasal psalmodizing. |