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

Chant :: Chant (v. t.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music..

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

Psalmodical :: Psalmodical (a.) Relating to psalmody.

Antiphon :: Antiphon (n.) A verse said before and after the psalms.

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

Gloria :: Gloria (n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches..

Salm :: Salm (n.) Psalm.

Psalmodize :: Psalmodize (v. i.) To practice psalmody.

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

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere..

Imprecatory :: Imprecatory (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms..

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

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm.

Introit :: Introit (n.) A psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar..

Psalmography :: Psalmography (n.) The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs..

Hagiographa :: Hagiographa (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles..

Psalter :: Psalter (n.) A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms..

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

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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