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Webster 1913 Edition
Psalmist
1.
A writer or composer of sacred songs; – a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
2.
(R. C. Ch.)
A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.
Webster 1828 Edition
Psalmist
PS`ALMIST
,Noun.
1.
In the church of Rome, a clerk, precentor, singer or leader of music in the church.Definition 2024
psalmist
psalmist
English
Noun
psalmist (plural psalmists)
- A composer of psalms
- (capitalized) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
Quotations
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- 1878 — Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, ch. 7
- An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
- 1897 — Bram Stoker, Dracula, ch. 25
- The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
- 1955 — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Third State of the Union Address
- Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.
Translations
composer of psalms
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composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
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