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‖ psalterion|psæl-, sɒlˈtɪərɪən|
Also 3 salteriun.
[In ME. a. OF. sal-, sar-, saterion (Wace 11th c.), mod.F. psalterion, ad. L. psaltērium; in mod. use a transliteration of Gr. ψαλτήριον psaltery, psalter.]
1. = psaltery 1. Now poet.
c1205Lay. 7000 Of harpe & of salteriun, of fiðele & of coriun. 1530Palsgr. 165 Psalterión, a psaltrion. 1579North Plutarch, Themistocles (1895) I. 283 He could no skill to tune a harpe, nor a violl, nor to playe of a psalterion. 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant 275 The only tolerable Instrument they have is the Psalterion. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 5677, I sent the tablets, the psalterion, so Rewarded Sicily. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 31 My fingers thou hast taught to con Thy flame-chorded psalterion.
2. R.C. Ch. = psalter 1 or 2.
1893Month Feb. 221 With regard to Vespers, the Psalterion lays down the law in this way. |