psalter

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This David was an holy man and made the holy psalter, which is an holy book and is contained therein the old law and the new law.

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  1. [capitalized] The Book of Psalms, considered as a separate book of the Old Testament: usually restricted to those versions of or compends from it which are arranged especially for the services of the church, such as the version of the Psalms in the Book of Common Prayer. The translation of the Psalter in the Book of Common Prayer is not that of the authorized version, but that of the earlier version of Cranmer's Bible. The prophete his payn eet in penaunce and wepyng; As the psauter vs seith, so dude moni othere. Piers Plowman (A), viii, 107. As David seythe in the Psautere, Quoniam persequebatur unus mille, & duo fugarent decem milia. Mandeville, Travels, p, 261.
  2. In liturgics, that portion of the Psalms appointed for a given day or service. And [let] each brother of common condition [sing] two psalters of psalms, one for the living and one for the dead. Quoted in English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), Int., p. xviii.
  3. In the Roman Catholic Church: A series of devout utterances or aspirations, 150 in number, in honor of certain mysteries, as the sufferings of Christ. Euery brother and sister shal payen, of ye commoun catel, a peny to a sauter for ye dedes soule. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 26.
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  • Evodius caught up a psalter, and before Monnica's body, not yet cold, he began to chant the Psalm, “My song shall be of mercy and judgment; unto Thee, O Lord, will I sing.” All who were in the house took up the responses. —  Saint Augustin
  • In one of the illuminations of a famous psalter, executed for Sir Geoffery Loutterell, who died in 1345, that nobleman is represented armed at all points, receiving from the ladies of his family his tilting helmet, shield, and pavon_. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
  • Upon a table lay an open psalter, with its long hanging cover and a ball at the extremity of the forel. —  Under the Rose
  • The liturgy has always been printed at the end of the psalter, and the change of the one involved that of the other. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
  • The psalter or the breviary of some early saint, a portion of the Scriptures, or some other volume held sacred, would be thus enshrined. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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  1. from Middle English psauter, psautere, sauter, sautre, from Old French psaultier, sautier, French psautier = Provencal psalteri, salteri, sauteri = Spanish salterio = Portuguese psalterio = Italian saltero, salterio, from Latin psalterium, a song sung to the psaltery, Late Latin the psalms of David, from Greek ψαλτήριον, a psaltery, LGr. the Psalter, Book of Psalms: see psaltery.
 

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