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Versify :: Versify (v. t.) To turn into verse; to render into metrical form; as, to versify the Psalms..

Psalmody :: Psalmody (n.) The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.

Psalmist :: Psalmist (n.) A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

Psalm :: Psalm (v. t.) To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises..

Deacon :: Deacon (v. t.) To read aloud each line of (a psalm or hymn) before singing it, -- usually with off..

Invitatory :: Invitatory (n.) That which invites; specifically, the invitatory psalm, or a part of it used in worship..

Salm :: Salm (n.) Psalm.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Psalmist :: Psalmist (n.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church..

Psalmodist :: Psalmodist (n.) One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t..

Chant :: Chant (v. t.) A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting..

Venite :: Venite (n.) The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm..

Anthem :: Anthem (n.) Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music..

Air :: Air (n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air..

Nocturn :: Nocturn (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service..

Set :: Set (v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm..

Psalmodic :: Psalmodic (a.) Alt. of Psalmodica.

Acroteleutic :: Acroteleutic (n.) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response..

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