Definitions for psalteries

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psalteries psal·ter·y

Spelling: [sawl-tuh-ree]

IPA: /ˈsɔl tə ri/

Psalteries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1123 anagrams from letters in psalteries (aeeilprsst).

Definitions for psalteries

noun

1. an ancient musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
2. (initial capital letter) the Psalter.

Origin of psalteries

1300-50; Middle English sautrie Middle French sauter(i)e Late Latin psaltērium; see Psalter

Examples for psalteries

Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp.

psaltery is the Greek translation, and hence the name psalm.

Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

Mersennus (b. 1588) also identifies the psaltery with the Dulcimer.

Here are the trumpets, the harp, the psaltery, and the timbrel.

I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

The Hebrew psaltery is supposed to have been a variety of the dulcimer.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with the psaltery and harp.

This was the psaltery and the dulcimer of the Assyrians and the Hebrews.