Psalter (Noun)
Meaning
A collection of Psalms for liturgical use.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The church used a traditional psalter for its Sunday morning services.
- The illuminated manuscript of the psalter was a treasured possession of the monastery.
- In the Orthodox Church, the psalter is divided into twenty kathismata, or sections.
- The Hebrew psalter contains 150 psalms, arranged in five books.
- The psalter was chanted by the monastic community at specific times throughout the day.