Psalter Definition

sältər, sôltər
noun
The Book of Psalms.
Webster's New World
A version of the Psalms for use in religious services.
Webster's New World

In the Roman Catholic Church, a rosary consisting of one hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the Psalms.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • book of psalms
  • psaltery
  • the Psalms

Other Word Forms of Psalter

Noun

Singular:
Psalter
Plural:
psalters

Origin of Psalter

  • Middle English sauter; psauter, from Old French sautier, psaltier, from Latin psalterium (“a stringed instrument like a lute"), from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psalterion, “a harp").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English psaltere Old French psaultier both from Late Latin psaltērium from Latin psaltery from Greek psaltērion psaltery

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Psalter Sentence Examples

  • His Latin, like that of Gallus, is far from classical, but he writes with spirit and throws a good deal of light upon 1 The Psalter is called after Margaret, the first wife of King Louis, who died in 1349, by a mere conjecture.

  • The Psalter, it is clear from many indications, is not the work of a single compiler, but was formed gradually.

  • Thus, though it is going too far to say that there are no pre-exilic psalms, the Psalter, as a whole, is the expression of the deeper spiritual feeling which marked the later stages of Israel's history.

  • The earliest specimen of the Polish language is the so-called Psalter of Queen Margaret, discovered in 1826 at the convent of St Florian.

  • His original intention was to revise the Old Latin, and his two revisions of the Psalter, the Roman and the Gallican, the latter modelled on the Hexapla, still survive.

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