Meanings
verbpsalmodize (third-person singular simple present psalmodizes, present participle psalmodizing, simple past and past participle psalmodized)
present singular third person psalmodizes · participle present psalmodizing · participle past psalmodized · past psalmodized
- ambitransitiveTo write or sing psalms.
the psalmodizing art
a. 1769, John Gilbert Cooper (translating Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset), "Ver-Vert" Canto 22 more examples
if their [the Jews'] religion had been the established religion, the aforesaid psalmodising would have been characterized with the name of "mauscheln".
1871, Heinrich Heine, translated by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travelthe singers seem to be psalmodizing among themselves,
1904, American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 30, number 2
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