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单词 psaltery
释义

psalteryn.

Brit. /ˈsɔːlt(ə)ri/, /ˈsɒlt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsɔltəri/, /ˈsɑltəri/
Forms:

α. Middle English saueray (transmission error), Middle English sauterie, Middle English sauterry, Middle English sautre, Middle English sautree, Middle English sautri, Middle English sautriȝe, Middle English sautrye, Middle English sawtre, Middle English sawtree, Middle English sawtrie, Middle English sawtrye, Middle English–1500s sautrie, Middle English–1500s sawtery, Middle English–1500s sawtrey, Middle English–1600s sautry, Middle English–1800s sawtry, 1500s saltry.

β. Middle English psautery, Middle English psautrie, Middle English–1500s psautry, 1500s–1600s psalterie, 1500s– psaltery, 1500s– psaltry; Scottish pre-1700 psaltree, pre-1700 psaltrie, pre-1700 psalttrie, pre-1700 psalttry, pre-1700 1700s– psaltery, 1700s 1900s– psaltry.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French psalterie; Latin psaltērium.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman psalterie, psaltrie, sautere (second half of the 12th cent.; compare Old French saltere , sauterie , and also forms at psalter n.) and its etymon classical Latin psaltērium (see psalterium n.). Compare earlier psalter n.Compare Old Dutch psalteri (Middle Dutch salterie , psalterie ), Middle High German salterje , psalterje (early modern German psalterie ). See also psalter n. for forms in languages in which the name of the instrument is not formally distinct from the word for a psalter. In biblical translation or reference after post-classical Latin psaltērium in the Vulgate, usually rendering Hebrew nēḇel , neḇel (see nebel n.).
1. An ancient or medieval stringed instrument with a sounding board or box, similar to the dulcimer but played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum. Also: a modern development or imitation of this.Often in biblical translation or reference, or poetic. In some cases, an instrument more like a harp or lyre (i.e., without a sounding board or box) may be meant; cf. psalterium n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] > psaltery
psaltereOE
psalteriumOE
psalterionc1275
psalteryc1330
psalterer?a1400
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] > psaltery > modern psaltery
psaltery1901
c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 635 (MED) Meche ȝhe kouþe of menstralcie, Of harpe, of fiþele, of sautri.
a1400 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) App. H. 814 Nas þer noman in londe þat so muche of song couþe..Ne of sautriȝe.
c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 35 (MED) He..gretly gaf hym to glee, To cetoyle, and to sawtree.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxii. 2 In psautery of ten cordis syngis til hym.
1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Biiv Dauyd..harped so melodiously..in his decacorde psautry.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Aa.iiv Bothe his harpe and sawtrey he [sc. Apollo] defide.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 50 The Trumpets, Sack-buts, Psalteries, and Fifes, Tabors, and Symboles, and the showting Romans. View more context for this quotation
1676 T. Mace Musick's Monument 271 See what care was taken to Separate Persons Fit for That Service, and Who should Prophesie with Harps, Psalteries, and Symbols.
1700 J. Dryden Flower & Leaf in Fables 396 The Sawtry, Pipe, and Hautbois noisy band.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. 230 In the evening, they adjourned..to hear Marmulet, the famed Genoese musician, who performed on the psaltery, the viol d'amor, and other instruments not known till then in England.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xxxi. 220 Sackbut deep, and psaltery, And war-pipe with discordant cry.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) i. 33 The Psaltery, as described by S. Augustine, corresponds with the ‘Santour’, as recognised..on the bas-relief of Babylon.
1901 W. B. Yeats Let. 20 July (1954) iii. 354 Dolmetsch has interested himself in the chanting..and has made a psaltery for Miss Farr. It has 12 strings.
1932 Musical Q. 18 599 Although ch'in is commonly translated as ‘lute’ or ‘psaltry’, it is properly neither, as the strings are stopped, unlike those of the psaltry.
1975 Gramophone Oct. 709/1 The psaltery heard here is a bigger instrument than those we see in old paintings... It has seventy-three strings..and is played with both hands, the instrument lying flat on a table.
2002 Church Times 7 June 14/5 The Psalms contained numerous references to praising God with harp and psaltery, tabor and trumpet.
2.
a. A set of the Psalms, recited or sung at a particular office; = psalter n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > psalm > selection from psalms
psaltereOE
psalteryc1450
c1450 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 31042) 162 (MED) He..his crede sayde, With sawtries full sere tymes, to sayntes in heuen.
b. The Book of Psalms; = psalter n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > Psalms
psaltereOE
the PsalmsOE
psalm songOE
psalm booka1200
psalter booka1200
psalmody1542
psaltery1628
society > faith > worship > church music > psalm > [noun] > translation or version of
psalterOE
psalteriuma1398
psaltery1822
cathisma1850
1628 J. Hume Jewes Deliv. v. 82 The princely Prophet throughout all his Psalterie makes out onely a generall confession of Gods blessings.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 22/1 She knew all the Psaltery by heart, aye, and a great part of the Testament besides.
1890 J. Healy Insula Sanctorum 156 The entire psaltery seems to have been recited during the daily office at least at certain times of the year.
c. = psalter n. 4. Obsolete. rare.Probably used for the sake of rhyme.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > Irish verse chronicle
psalter1685
psaltery1809
1809 T. Campbell O'Connor's Child vi Their tribe, they said, their high degree, Was sung in Tara's psaltery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

psalteryv.

Brit. /ˈsɔːlt(ə)ri/, /ˈsɒlt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsɔltəri/, /ˈsɑltəri/
Forms: Middle English sauterye, Middle English sautre, Middle English sautrie, Middle English sawtrye, 1900s– psaltery.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: psaltery n.
Etymology: < psaltery n. Compare early modern German psalterien (14th cent.).
rare.
intransitive. To play the psaltery.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play psaltery
psalteryc1400
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvi. 208 Ich can..Noþer sailen ne sautrien [v.rr. sauteryen, sautren; c1400 B text v.rr. sautre, sawtrye] ne singe with þe giterne.
1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 11 June in C. Bax F. Farr, B. Shaw, W. B. Yeats (1946) 17 Are you too busy psalterying to copyright my new play at the Bayswater theatre?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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