Word Meanings - PSALMODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.

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• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum; in the region of the sacrum.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• SACRIFICANT
  One who offers a sacrifice.
• SINGLY
  1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
• SING-SING
  The kob.
• SACRILEGE
  The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege
• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• SACRIFIC; SACRIFICAL
  Employed in sacrifice. Johnson.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• SACRAMENTALLY
  In a sacrament manner.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• SINGLE
  1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from
• SACRAMENTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist. Shipley.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• SINGSTER
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• SACRED
  sacrer, fr. L. sacrare, fr. sacer sacred, holy, cursed. Cf. 1. Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred
• UNSACRAMENT
  To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• TRISACRAMENTARIAN
  One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• DECREASING
  Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
• CHASING
  The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
• NEESING
  Sneezing. "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• DISGUISING
  A masque or masquerade.
• SACRE
  See SAKKER