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- English Word Prytanes Definition of Prytanis
- English Word Prytaneum Definition A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
- English Word Prytanis Definition A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
- English Word Prytany Definition The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
- English Word Prythee Definition See Prithee.
- English Word Psalm Definition A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
- English Word Psalm Definition 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.
- English Word Psalm Definition To extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
- English Word Psalmist Definition A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.
- English Word Psalmist Definition A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.
- English Word Psalmistry Definition The use of psalms in devotion; psalmody.
- English Word Psalmodic Definition Alt. of Psalmodical
- English Word Psalmodical Definition Relating to psalmody.
- English Word Psalmodist Definition One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.
- English Word Psalmodize Definition To practice psalmody.
- English Word Psalmody Definition The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.
- English Word Psalmograph Definition A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.
- English Word Psalmographer Definition Alt. of Psalmographist
- English Word Psalmographist Definition A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.
- English Word Psalmography Definition The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs.
- English Word Psalter Definition The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
- English Word Psalter Definition Specifically, the Book of Psalms as printed in the Book of Common Prayer; among the Roman Catholics, the part of the Breviary which contains the Psalms arranged for each day of the week.
- English Word Psalter Definition A rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms.
- English Word Psalteria Definition of Psalterium
- English Word Psalterial Definition Of or pertaining to the psalterium.
- English Word Psalteries Definition of Psaltery
- English Word Psalterium Definition The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.
- English Word Psalterium Definition The lyra of the brain.
- English Word Psaltery Definition A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.
- English Word Psammite Definition A species of micaceous sandstone.