psalmistn.

Brit.

/ˈsɑːmɪst/, U.S.

/ˈsɑ(l)məst/

Forms: early Middle English salmiste, late Middle English psalnyst (transmission error), late Middle English–1500s psalmyste, 1500s psalmiste, 1500s psalmyst, 1500s– psalmist; Scottish pre-1700 psalpmest, pre-1700 1700s– psalmist. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French psalmiste; Latin psalmista.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French psalmiste person who composes psalms, especially the composer of the Book of Psalms (c1174 in Old French), member of a minor clerical order acting as a singer of psalms (1541 in the passage translated in quot. 1561 at sense 2; French psalmiste ) and its etymon post-classical Latin psalmista composer of the Book of Psalms (4th cent.; from 6th cent. in British sources), one of the members of a minor clerical order who acted as choristers or cantors (4th cent.; from 8th cent. in British sources), member of a minor clerical order acting as a singer of psalms (1559 in the passage translated in quot. 1561 at sense 2) < psalmus psalm n. + -ista -ist suffix. Compare earlier psalmwright n., and also psalmister n. Compare Old Occitan salmista , Catalan salmista , psalmista (14th cent.), Spanish salmista (13th cent. as psalmista ), Portuguese salmista (14th cent, also as †psalmista ), Italian salmista (1304–8), Middle Dutch psalmiste (Dutch psalmist ), Middle Low German psalmiste (not fully naturalized), German Psalmist (14th cent.). With sense 3 compare earlier psalmodist n. 1b.

a. A person who composes psalms; spec. (chiefly as the Psalmist) the person believed to have composed the Book of Psalms (formerly identified as King David).The singular designation is still frequently used for the spec. sense, even though multiple authorship of the Book of Psalms is now generally recognized.

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

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 145 As seið þe salmiste: Qui emittis fontes in conuallibus.

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 8 (MED) iiii gendrys of temptacioun the whiche anumbrith the psalnyst [read psalmyst].

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton G viij b As the psalmyste sayth.

a1500 tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life (Worcester) 30 (MED) Therfor saith the psalmyste eftsones, ‘Myn eyen euer bien to god.’

1539 Bible (Great) 2 Sam. xxiii. 2 The noble Psalmist of Israel.

1623 W. Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. §4 The Psalmist noteth it as a branch of Gods incomparable glory.

1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 253 I..cease to think the Psalmist an hyperbolist, for comparing the transcendent sweetness of God's word to that inferiour one of honey.

a1720 J. Hughes Poems Several Occasions (1735) I. 93 She tun'd to pious Notes the Psalmist's Lyre.

1757 J. Woolman Jrnl. May (1971) iv. 60 I was favoured to understand the state mentioned by the Psalmist more clearly than ever I had before.

1838 H. W. Longfellow (title) A psalm of life. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist.

1863 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 2 357 The Psalmist sings of having his horn exalted above his enemies.

1890 A. F. Kirkpatrick Bk. Psalms i. Introd. i. 10 The Psalmists celebrate the moral law as the guide of human conduct.

1924 B. C. Williams in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1923 p. xv American writers have their origins among Anglo-Saxon scops, Celtic bards, French trouvères, Hebrew psalmists and historians.

1994 Wanderer 11 Aug. 2/3 The psalmist tells us: ‘The great grow poor and hungry, those who seek the Lord want for no good thing.’

b. figurative. A person who extols or sings the praises of someone or something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises

lover?c1225

praisera1382

allower1528

advancer1536

commendera1568

emblazoner1591

encomiast1610

lauder1611

benedictor1614

extollera1626

encomiaster1676

exalter1678

preconizer1711

eulogist1808

proneur1809

laudator1825

eulogizer1837

belauder1884

psalmist1884

1884 Western Morning News 11 Sept. 4/3 The psalmists of the rising diplomatist tell how..he succeeded in Syria.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 41/1 It was no personal ambition that made him the psalmist of the new movement.

1920 J. Eichenwald in M. J. Olgin Guide Russ. Lit. 305 He is the psalmist of the human soul.

1995 Independent (Nexis) 26 Mar. (Review section) 43 Hughes is a psalmist of the natural world.

2. Christian Church. In the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Churches: a member of a minor clerical order acting as a chorister or cantor, specifically as a singer of psalms. Later also in Protestant Churches and congregations: a leader of singing or psalmody in worship.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > psalmist

psalmister?c1225

psalmist1561

psalterist1587

psalmodist1726

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > cantor or precentor > in minor orders

psalmister?c1225

psalmist1561

psalmodist1726

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xix. f. 155^v They create with great pompe and solemnitie their Reders, Psalmistes [Fr. Psalmistes; L. psalmistas], Dorekepers, Acolytes, to execute those offices, wherunto they appoint very children, or those whome they call lay men.

1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1567) ii. iii. 98 The Psalmistes or Singers office was, to singe the Psalmes.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. xi. 140 As if all that are made Priests among you were Psalmists, Sextens, Readers, Exorcists, Torch-bearers, Subdeacons, and Deacons before.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 184 Some in the [Roman] Church exclude a Bishop; and others therein make nine Orders, by including the Bishop and Psalmist.

1829 R. Southey All for Love ix. 92 Choristers and Monks and Priests, And Psalmists there, and Exorcists.

1901 J. Wordsworth Ministry of Grace 197 Psalmists or choirmen are not mentioned in the Church till the latter half of the fourth century.

1978 R. J. Halliburton in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy ii. iv. v. 318 The Eastern churches of the Byzantine rite [have] five orders of ordained ministers: the three major orders of bishop, presbyter, and deacon, and two further orders of sub-deacon and lector (alternatively known as ‘cantor’ or ‘psalmist’).

2006 Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Religion section) 1 Second Baptist Church..will have its pre-homecoming musical service at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Featured guests will include Angie Larson, a psalmist from Kansas City.

†3. A book containing metrical versions or musical settings of the psalms, for use in public worship; a psalm book. Obsolete.Only in the titles of such books.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > music books > [noun] > psalter

psalm bookOE

psalterOE

psalteriuma1398

psalter book?a1475

psalmodist1735

psalmist1825

psalterion1893

1825 J. Montgomery (title) The Christian psalmist, or, hymns: selected and original.

1858 (title) The Congregational psalmist: a companion to all the new hymn-books, providing tunes, chorales, and chants [etc.].

?1871 (title) Southern psalmist.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 1).

ΚΠ

1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lii. 208 Hail, Hebrew Psalmist-King!

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvi. 161 A kind of Psalmist solemnity.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. iii. 410 Going out to witness it, with something of a poetic, almost of a psalmist feeling.

1900 W. Alexander Finding of Bk. 175 The poet-king withdrawn,..Like his psalmist-sire awakes The red pillars of the dawn.

1912 Evening Post (Frederick, Maryland) 27 Nov. 2/4 This psalmist thinker leads us straight to this thought.

1968 A. Ussher Three Great Irishmen ii. 56 The humble typist Prossy dreams of the socialist preacher, as the tiring-women of David's palace once sighed for the arms of the psalmist king.

Derivatives

† psalmist-like adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1892 F. Espinasse Life Voltaire xi. 177 He breaks forth into almost Psalmist-like praises of the wisdom and beneficence of the Creator.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	psalmist
释义	psalmistn. Brit. /ˈsɑːmɪst/, U.S. /ˈsɑ(l)məst/ Forms: early Middle English salmiste, late Middle English psalnyst (transmission error), late Middle English–1500s psalmyste, 1500s psalmiste, 1500s psalmyst, 1500s– psalmist; Scottish pre-1700 psalpmest, pre-1700 1700s– psalmist. Also with capital initial. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French psalmiste; Latin psalmista. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French psalmiste person who composes psalms, especially the composer of the Book of Psalms (c1174 in Old French), member of a minor clerical order acting as a singer of psalms (1541 in the passage translated in quot. 1561 at sense 2; French psalmiste ) and its etymon post-classical Latin psalmista composer of the Book of Psalms (4th cent.; from 6th cent. in British sources), one of the members of a minor clerical order who acted as choristers or cantors (4th cent.; from 8th cent. in British sources), member of a minor clerical order acting as a singer of psalms (1559 in the passage translated in quot. 1561 at sense 2) < psalmus psalm n. + -ista -ist suffix. Compare earlier psalmwright n., and also psalmister n. Compare Old Occitan salmista , Catalan salmista , psalmista (14th cent.), Spanish salmista (13th cent. as psalmista ), Portuguese salmista (14th cent, also as †psalmista ), Italian salmista (1304–8), Middle Dutch psalmiste (Dutch psalmist ), Middle Low German psalmiste (not fully naturalized), German Psalmist (14th cent.). With sense 3 compare earlier psalmodist n. 1b. 1. a. A person who composes psalms; spec. (chiefly as the Psalmist) the person believed to have composed the Book of Psalms (formerly identified as King David).The singular designation is still frequently used for the spec. sense, even though multiple authorship of the Book of Psalms is now generally recognized. 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 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 145 As seið þe salmiste: Qui emittis fontes in conuallibus. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 8 (MED) iiii gendrys of temptacioun the whiche anumbrith the psalnyst [read psalmyst]. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton G viij b As the psalmyste sayth. a1500 tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life (Worcester) 30 (MED) Therfor saith the psalmyste eftsones, ‘Myn eyen euer bien to god.’ 1539 Bible (Great) 2 Sam. xxiii. 2 The noble Psalmist of Israel. 1623 W. Gouge Serm. Extent God's Provid. §4 The Psalmist noteth it as a branch of Gods incomparable glory. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 253 I..cease to think the Psalmist an hyperbolist, for comparing the transcendent sweetness of God's word to that inferiour one of honey. a1720 J. Hughes Poems Several Occasions (1735) I. 93 She tun'd to pious Notes the Psalmist's Lyre. 1757 J. Woolman Jrnl. May (1971) iv. 60 I was favoured to understand the state mentioned by the Psalmist more clearly than ever I had before. 1838 H. W. Longfellow (title) A psalm of life. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. 1863 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 2 357 The Psalmist sings of having his horn exalted above his enemies. 1890 A. F. Kirkpatrick Bk. Psalms i. Introd. i. 10 The Psalmists celebrate the moral law as the guide of human conduct. 1924 B. C. Williams in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1923 p. xv American writers have their origins among Anglo-Saxon scops, Celtic bards, French trouvères, Hebrew psalmists and historians. 1994 Wanderer 11 Aug. 2/3 The psalmist tells us: ‘The great grow poor and hungry, those who seek the Lord want for no good thing.’ b. figurative. A person who extols or sings the praises of someone or something. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > [noun] > one who commends or praises lover?c1225 praisera1382 allower1528 advancer1536 commendera1568 emblazoner1591 encomiast1610 lauder1611 benedictor1614 extollera1626 encomiaster1676 exalter1678 preconizer1711 eulogist1808 proneur1809 laudator1825 eulogizer1837 belauder1884 psalmist1884 1884 Western Morning News 11 Sept. 4/3 The psalmists of the rising diplomatist tell how..he succeeded in Syria. 1885 Cent. Mag. May 41/1 It was no personal ambition that made him the psalmist of the new movement. 1920 J. Eichenwald in M. J. Olgin Guide Russ. Lit. 305 He is the psalmist of the human soul. 1995 Independent (Nexis) 26 Mar. (Review section) 43 Hughes is a psalmist of the natural world. 2. Christian Church. In the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Churches: a member of a minor clerical order acting as a chorister or cantor, specifically as a singer of psalms. Later also in Protestant Churches and congregations: a leader of singing or psalmody in worship. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > psalmist psalmister?c1225 psalmist1561 psalterist1587 psalmodist1726 society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of church music > [noun] > cantor or precentor > in minor orders psalmister?c1225 psalmist1561 psalmodist1726 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xix. f. 155^v They create with great pompe and solemnitie their Reders, Psalmistes [Fr. Psalmistes; L. psalmistas], Dorekepers, Acolytes, to execute those offices, wherunto they appoint very children, or those whome they call lay men. 1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1567) ii. iii. 98 The Psalmistes or Singers office was, to singe the Psalmes. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. xi. 140 As if all that are made Priests among you were Psalmists, Sextens, Readers, Exorcists, Torch-bearers, Subdeacons, and Deacons before. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 184 Some in the [Roman] Church exclude a Bishop; and others therein make nine Orders, by including the Bishop and Psalmist. 1829 R. Southey All for Love ix. 92 Choristers and Monks and Priests, And Psalmists there, and Exorcists. 1901 J. Wordsworth Ministry of Grace 197 Psalmists or choirmen are not mentioned in the Church till the latter half of the fourth century. 1978 R. J. Halliburton in C. Jones et al. Study of Liturgy ii. iv. v. 318 The Eastern churches of the Byzantine rite [have] five orders of ordained ministers: the three major orders of bishop, presbyter, and deacon, and two further orders of sub-deacon and lector (alternatively known as ‘cantor’ or ‘psalmist’). 2006 Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Aug. (Religion section) 1 Second Baptist Church..will have its pre-homecoming musical service at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Featured guests will include Angie Larson, a psalmist from Kansas City. †3. A book containing metrical versions or musical settings of the psalms, for use in public worship; a psalm book. Obsolete.Only in the titles of such books. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > music books > [noun] > psalter psalm bookOE psalterOE psalteriuma1398 psalter book?a1475 psalmodist1735 psalmist1825 psalterion1893 1825 J. Montgomery (title) The Christian psalmist, or, hymns: selected and original. 1858 (title) The Congregational psalmist: a companion to all the new hymn-books, providing tunes, chorales, and chants [etc.]. ?1871 (title) Southern psalmist. Compounds General attributive (in sense 1). ΚΠ 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lii. 208 Hail, Hebrew Psalmist-King! 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xvi. 161 A kind of Psalmist solemnity. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. iii. 410 Going out to witness it, with something of a poetic, almost of a psalmist feeling. 1900 W. Alexander Finding of Bk. 175 The poet-king withdrawn,..Like his psalmist-sire awakes The red pillars of the dawn. 1912 Evening Post (Frederick, Maryland) 27 Nov. 2/4 This psalmist thinker leads us straight to this thought. 1968 A. Ussher Three Great Irishmen ii. 56 The humble typist Prossy dreams of the socialist preacher, as the tiring-women of David's palace once sighed for the arms of the psalmist king. Derivatives † psalmist-like adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1892 F. Espinasse Life Voltaire xi. 177 He breaks forth into almost Psalmist-like praises of the wisdom and beneficence of the Creator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1230
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