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Synonyms for psalter

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sawl-ter
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔl tər

Définition of psalter

Origin :
  • "the Book of Psalms," Old English saltere, psaltere, from Church Latin psalterium "the songs of David," in secular Latin, "stringed instrument played by twanging," from Greek psalterion "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp," from psallein "to pluck, play on a stringed instrument" (see psalm).
  • As in prayer book : noun book holding prayers
Example sentences :
  • The Psalter, portions of the Bible, lives of saints, were put into verse.
  • Extract from : « A Literary History of the English People » by Jean Jules Jusserand
  • You will read out from the psalter all the evening, and up to midnight.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • There was no help for it, so the Soldier took to his psalter and read and read.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • In 1568 other printers produced in Moscow the Psalter, and other books.
  • Extract from : « A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections » by Isabel Florence Hapgood
  • Mildred adorned her psalter with the ravished hair and sent it to her mother.
  • Extract from : « Early Double Monasteries » by Constance Stoney
  • The second Psalter of 1459 brought at the Syston Park sale £4950.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt
  • These are the headings of the Psalter divided into thirty parts.
  • Extract from : « Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of St. Paul » by Arthur Dimock
  • The volume was bound in sable, and its exterior might have become a psalter.
  • Extract from : « Red Gauntlet » by Sir Walter Scott
  • It is the prevailing tone in the Psalter and in Job and Ecclesiastes.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 1 » by A. Maclaren
  • Or how, if he did, came his song to find and keep a place in the Psalter?
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 » by Alexander Maclaren

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