PSALM (from the Gr. word * hXAew, to play the harp) , the name used to designate the religious poems of the Hebrews, which are contained in the Psalter (see
(1538) were curious adaptations of Hebrew ideas to French forms of the epigram and the madrigal. But it is doubtful whether the psalm, as distinguished from the Hebrew Psalter, can be said to have any independent existence. It is loosely used to describe any exalted strain of devotional melody. (See also HYMNS.)
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