| 单词 | psalm-singer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspsalm-singer psalm-singer n. [compare post-classical Latin psalmicen (5th cent.), psalmicanus (11th cent.), psalmicinus (13th cent. in a British source); compare also Old English sealmsangere ( < psalm n. + songer n.)] occas. derogatory a person who sings psalms; spec. a nonconformist who advocates the singing of psalms (as opposed to hymns) in public worship (historical). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > psalm > [noun] > making or reciting of > person engaged in songereOE psalmwrightOE lofsongera1225 psalmister?c1225 psalmistc1230 psalmograph1538 psalm-singer1578 psalmographer1598 psalmodista1652 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > singer of psalms psalm-singer1578 psalmodist1659 1578 T. Sampson Warning to take Heede of Fowlers Psalter 71 Dauid (I say) who was that sweete Psalme singer of Israell. 1652 R. Day Humble Petition or Remonstr. 5 The Psalme-singers, the holy Saints and Angells are filled with unspeakable joy. 1719 E. Ireland (ed. 3) (title) The Psalm singer's guide: being a choice collection of the most useful tunes of the Psalms, in two, three, and four parts. 1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 211 He was the best psalm-singer in the whole congregation. 1844 Bentley's Mag. Nov. 474 Two gentleman ‘griddlers’, or itinerant psalm-singers. 1909 Daily Chron. 15 Dec. 5/2 Cromwell, the greatest ruler England ever had, was, with his glorious Ironsides, a Psalm-singer. 1940 Jrnl. Relig. 20 371 The Scotch-Irish [Presbyterian] psalm-singers..had been solidified by persecution in the old country. 2000 Nineteenth-cent. Lit. 55 356 In The Last of the Mohicans not even the pious psalm-singer David believes in supernatural agency. < as lemmas |
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