Psalm: Definition and part of speech

Psalm

  1. v. t. To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
  2. n. A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
  3. n. Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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