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Definition of Psalmic
1. of or pertaining to a psalm [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Psalmic
Literary usage of Psalmic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"Its verse will include some two thousand poems ; as psalmic paraphrases, anthems,
hymns, elegies, sonnets, pastorals, canticles, ballads, epigrams, idylls, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... of the prayers which they contain, must have tended to fix this psalmic
character on all Jewish prayer. The effect is seen plainly in the fora of ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They fasted, they rejoiced; DHL- hour they chilled themselves in the cemeteries,
the next they rushed frantically through the streets singing psalmic ..."
4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William George Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1888)
"... the poetical form of the Prophetic books, and af the prayers which they contain,
must have tended to fix this psalmic character on all Jewish prayer. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"They fasted, they rejoiced; one hour they chilled themselves in the cemeteries,
the next they rushed frantically through the streets singing psalmic ..."
6. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1875)
"\Vho has a right to say that the wings of the psalmic bards were so feeble that
they could never soar into the empyrean of the purely ideal future ? ..."
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