PSALM, noun s'am. [Latin psalmus; Gr. to touch or beat, to sing.]
A sacred song or hymn; a song composed on a divine subject and in praise of God. The most remarkable psalms are those composed by David and other Jewish saints, a collection of one hundred and fifty of which constitutes a canonical book of the Old Testament, called Psalms, or the book of Psalms. The word is also applied to sacred songs composed by modern poets, being versifications of the scriptural psalms, or of these with other parts of Scripture, composed for the use of churches; as the Psalms of Tate and Brady, of Watts, etc.
PS'ALMIST, noun A writer or composer of sacred songs; a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the scriptural psalms.
1. In the church of Rome, a clerk, precentor, singer or leader of music in the church.
PS'ALMODY, noun The act, practice or art of singing sacred songs. psalmody has always been considered an important part of public worship.
PSALMOG'RAPHER
PSALMOG'RAPHIST, noun [See Psalmography.]
A writer of psalms or divine songs and hymns.
PSALMOG'RAPHIST, n. [See Psalmography.]
A writer of psalms or divine songs and hymns.
PSAL'TER, noun [Latin psalterium.]
1. The book of Psalms; often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
2. In Romish countries, a large chaplet or rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, according to the number of the psalms.
PSAL'TERY, noun [Gr.] An instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not now known. That which is now used is a flat instrument in form of a trapezium or triangle truncated at the top, strung with thirteen chords of wire, mounted on two bridges at the sides, and struck with a plectrum or crooked stick.
Praise the Lord with harp; sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Psalms 33:2.
PSAM'MITE, noun [Gr. sand.] A species of micaceous sandstone.
PSEUDO, Gr. false, a prefix signifying false, counterfeit or spurious.
PSEU'DOGRAPH
PSEUDOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. false, and writing.] False writing.
PSEUDOG'RAPHY, n. [Gr. false, and writing.] False writing.
PSEUDOL'OGY, noun [Gr. false, and discourse.] Falsehood of speech.
PSEUDOMORPH'OUS, adjective [pseudo and Gr. form.] Not having the true form. A pseudomorphous mineral is one which has received its form from some extraneous cause, not from natural crystallization.
PSHAW, exclamation An expression of contempt, disdain or dislike.
PSO'AS, noun [Gr.] The name of two inside muscles of the loins.
PSO'RA, noun [Gr.] The itch.
PSYCHOLOG'IC
PSYCHOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a treatise on the soul, or to the study of the soul of man.
PSYCHOLOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a treatise on the soul, or to the study of the soul of man.
PSYCHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. soul, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on the human soul; or the doctrine of the nature and properties of the soul.