Psalter

Word PSALTER
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈsɔːltə(ɹ)/

Definitions and meanings of "Psalter"

What do we mean by psalter?

The Book of Psalms. Often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Specifically for Anglicans, the Book of Common Prayer which contains the Book of Psalms. For Catholics, the Breviary containing the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.

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

(obsolete or rare) psaltery (the musical instrument).

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The word "psalter" in example sentences

Now that night the abbess had with her a priest whom she used not seldom to have conveyed to her in a chest; and the report of the sisters making her apprehensive lest for excess of zeal and hurry they should force the door open, she rose in a trice; and huddling on her clothes as best she might in the dark, instead of the veil that they wear, which they call the psalter, she caught up the priest's breeches, and having clapped them on her head, hied her forth, and locked the door behind her, saying: -- "Where is this woman accursed of God?" ❋ Giovanni Boccaccio (1344)

St Jerome’s traditional Gallican psalter from the Vulgate is given in the text of all the hours. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For me, the Grail version of the psalter is the very best. ❋ Terry Nelson (2006)

The actual text begins with the psalter, that is the psalms arranged for the week, with their normal antiphons and hymns. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This David was an holy man and made the holy psalter, which is an holy book and is contained therein the old law and the new law. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

The psalter is the story of how God makes many righteous (the mercied of Psalm 149) through the gift of the singular righteous of Psalm 1-2. ❋ Scot McKnight (2010)

The psalter, which is thought to be almost 1,000 years old, has been described as Scotland's version of the famous Book of Kells in Dublin. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The origin of the psalter is a mystery but experts believe it was probably produced by monks in Iona, who were also associated with the making of the Book of Kells. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the immense crowd of the unlettered, the multitude which had neither psalter nor missal and whose only book was the church, it was necessary to give concrete form to abstract thought. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, as an example of what I am talking about and a partial answer to your question, I am a lifelong UU who had been unaware until now, when I found out quite by accident, that John Q. wrote a metrical psalter for use as a hymnal. ❋ Fausto (2009)

Here is what a monk explains: Why, you may ask, are Roman Catholic monks using an Anglican psalter? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another exhibit, from 600 years later, will be Henry VIII's psalter, in which he has made intellectual annotations in Latin. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Initial Q opening psalm 51 in a ferial or choral psalter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"It is a literal truth that I, your father, and you and Geertje owe this book our very existences," Jacob's uncle said when he passed down the psalter that blocked the bullet headed for Jacob's great-great -- grandfather's heart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problem of the calendar will be considered, particularly the ferial and Dominical cycles being swamped by the disproportionate number of doubles and the prominence given to Sundays in the 1911-1913 reform as well as the change to the cursus of the psalter and the implications for choral celebration. ❋ Unknown (2009)

St Michael's Abbey press publish the Monastic Diurnal which is a favourite of many lay people who are not bound to the office but choose to pray the day hours of the traditional psalter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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