Crossword clues for psalmody
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Psalmody \Psal"mo*dy\, n. [Gr. ?; ? psalm + ? a song, an ode: cf. F. psalmodie, LL. psalmodia. See Psalm, and Ode.] The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music uncountable English) The singing or the writing of psalms. 2 (context music countable English) A collection of psalms.
WordNet
n. the act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: hymnody]
Usage examples of "psalmody".
But oh the lovesomeness of that wingless Love, the sensuous psalmody that seems about to part the young lips, and the glad eyes one may fancy glancing under that careless infant brow!
By the adoption of the new psalmody the Puritan and Presbyterian churches, perhaps not consciously, but none the less actually, yielded the major premiss of the only argument by which liturgical worship was condemned on principle.
The song of the choristers died away in a shake of demisemiquavers, contrary to all the rules of psalmody.
There was a full moon overhead, yet the vault of the sky at the moment was lurid with light cast up from the fires burning in the streets and open places of the city, and the chanting and chorusing of the old psalmody of Israel filled it with plaintive harmonies to which he could not but listen.
The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga, cloistered fifty years ago at Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office.