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Webster 1913 Edition
Psalm
Psalm
,Noun.
[OE.
psalm
, salm
, AS. sealm
, L. psalmus
, psalma
, fr. Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to pull, twitch, to play upon a stringed instrument, to sing to the harp: cf. OF. psalme
, salme
, F. psaume
.] 1.
A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
Humus devout and holy
Singing everlastingly.
psalms
Singing everlastingly.
Milton.
2.
Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
Psalm
,Verb.
T.
To extol in psalms; to sing;
as,
. psalming
his praisesSylvester.
Webster 1828 Edition
Psalm
PSALM
,Noun.
A sacred song or hymn; a song composed on a divine subject and in praise of God. The most remarkable psalms are those composed by David and other Jewish saints, a collection of one hundred and fifty of which constitutes a canonical book of the Old Testament, called Psalms, or the book of Psalms. The word is also applied to sacred songs composed by modern poets, being versifications of the scriptural psalms, or of these with other parts of Scripture, composed for the use of churches; as the Psalms of Tate and Brady, of Watts, &c.