Crossword clues for psalmist
psalmist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psalmist \Psalm"ist\, n. [L. psalmista, Gr. ?: cf. F. psalmiste. See Psalm.]
A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
(R. C. Ch.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c. (replacing psalmistre, late 14c.), from Middle French psalmiste and directly from Church Latin psalmista, from Ecclesiastical Greek psalmistes, from psalmizein "to sing psalms," from psalmos (see psalm).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A composer of psalms 2 (context capitalized English) A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms
WordNet
n. a composer of sacred songs; "David is called The Psalmist because he is believed to be the author of the Book of Psalms"
Usage examples of "psalmist".
The Psalmist said that he saw the wicked flourishing like a green bay-tree, and he was pleased to observe a little after that he was gone and that his place was no more to be found.
One thing do I desire, said the Psalmist, that mine ear may be nailed to the doorpost of my God: that I may always be His servant, and may never wander from His service.
Remember the Psalmist in the hundred-and-thirtieth Psalm,--down in the deeps, if ever a fallen sinner was.
The secret of the Lord, says the Psalmist, is with them that fear Him.
He is like the Psalmist in one thing, he has more understanding than all his teachers.
Yes, till God sent from above and took us as He never took a psalmist, and set our feet upon a still more wonderful rock.
That the Psalmist is not set up as our great example, and that his utterances are not given as the highest manifestation of goodness.
And the revenge of the Psalmist was provoked by wrong of the most grievous description.
Thus the men that wronged and tormented the Psalmist were enemies to God and goodness, as well as to himself.
True, if the Psalmist had lived under the better and brighter dispensation of Christianity, he would neither have felt the reproaches heaped on him so keenly, nor moaned under them so piteously, nor resented them so warmly.
And the intelligent Christian, and the enlightened lover of the Bible, will not be ashamed either of the Psalmist, or of the Book which gives us the instructive and interesting revelations of his experience.
That was the plain fact, on which the psalmist built up this noble psalm.
This is the meaning of the Psalmist, that the weather is not a dead machine, but a living, wonderful work of the Spirit of God, the Lord and giver of life.
Her life had been passed in a world of which the words of the Psalmist, though uttered in haste, are a clear-cut description.
I have not got one step beyond what the old Psalmist learnt amid the earthquakes and volcanoes of the pastures and the forests of Palestine, three thousand years ago.