psalmodize

English

Etymology

psalmody +‎ -ize

Verb

psalmodize (third-person singular simple present psalmodizes, present participle psalmodizing, simple past and past participle psalmodized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To write or sing psalms.
   • a. 1769, John Gilbert Cooper (translating Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset), "Ver-Vert" Canto 2

     the psalmodizing art

   • 1871, Heinrich Heine, translated by Charles Godfrey Leland, Pictures of Travel:

     if their [the Jews'] religion had been the established religion, the aforesaid psalmodising would have been characterized with the name of "mauscheln".

   • 1904, American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 30, number 2:

     the singers seem to be psalmodizing among themselves,

Related terms

• psalmody

References

• “psalmodize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.