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psalteryn.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.). society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] > psaltery society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > zither > [noun] > psaltery > modern psaltery c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza (1891) 635 (MED) Meche ȝhe kouþe of menstralcie, Of harpe, of fiþele, of sautri. a1400 (a1325) (Trin. Cambr.) (1887) App. H. 814 Nas þer noman in londe þat so muche of song couþe..Ne of sautriȝe. c1440 (Thornton) (1949) 35 (MED) He..gretly gaf hym to glee, To cetoyle, and to sawtree. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxii. 2 In psautery of ten cordis syngis til hym. 1528 J. Skelton sig. Biiv Dauyd..harped so melodiously..in his decacorde psautry. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. sig. Aa.iiv Bothe his harpe and sawtrey he [sc. Apollo] defide. a1616 W. Shakespeare (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 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 396 The Sawtry, Pipe, and Hautbois noisy band. 1769 H. Brooke 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 iv. xxxi. 220 Sackbut deep, and psaltery, And war-pipe with discordant cry. 1864 E. B. Pusey (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 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 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 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 7 June 14/5 The Psalms contained numerous references to praising God with harp and psaltery, tabor and trumpet. †2. society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [noun] > psalm > selection from psalms c1450 (?a1400) (BL Add. 31042) 162 (MED) He..his crede sayde, With sawtries full sere tymes, to sayntes in heuen. society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > Psalms society > faith > worship > church music > psalm > [noun] > translation or version of 1628 J. Hume v. 82 The princely Prophet throughout all his Psalterie makes out onely a generall confession of Gods blessings. 1822 C. Lamb in Jan. 22/1 She knew all the Psaltery by heart, aye, and a great part of the Testament besides. 1890 J. Healy 156 The entire psaltery seems to have been recited during the daily office at least at certain times of the year. society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > Irish verse chronicle 1809 T. Campbell 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.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: psaltery n. Etymology: < psaltery n. Compare early modern German psalterien (14th cent.). rare. society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play psaltery c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (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 (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). < n.c1330v.c1400 |