Noun: psalter
| Singular | psalter |
| Plural | psalters |
Sample Sentences
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Confesse ye to our Lord on the harpe: on a psalter of ten strings sing to him. [1635, John Cousturier, The second tome of the Holie Bible, Psalm 32:2, page 66:]
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Perhaps the viol d'amour underwent several modifications, as its name was changed to psalter in the belief of its being the ancient instrument so denominated, which is quite different, according to most authorities — not belonging to the fidicinal tribe. [1849, Sir John Graham Dalyell, Musical Memoirs of Scotland, T. Constable, page 206]
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Some have supposed that the psalter was not in fact an instrument, but that the term was applied merely to harmony produced by the voice in conjunction with instruments. [1875, Edward H. Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, J. B. Ford and Company, page 1499:]
Nouns inflected like psalter
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Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English psauter & sauter, from Old French psautier & saltier, from Latin psaltērium (“a kind of lute or zither”), from Ancient Greek ψᾰλτήρῐον (psăltḗrĭon, “harp”). Doublet of psalterion, psalterium, and psaltery. See: Middle English Nouns '
psauter', Latin Nouns '
psaltērium'.