Definition of "psalmody"

psalmody

/ˈsɑː.mə.di/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural psalmodies
1. (music, uncountable) The singing or the writing of psalms.
  Quotations
  They deserved the enmity of the Pagans; and some of them might deserve the reproaches of avarice and intemperance; of avarice, which they gratified with holy plunder, and of intemperance, which they indulged at the expense of the people, who foolishly admired their tattered garments, loud psalmody, and artificial paleness.
  1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXVIII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […]
  All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
2. (music, countable) A collection of psalms.
verb
third-person singular simple present psalmodies, present participle psalmodying, simple past and past participle psalmodied
1. To celebrate in psalms.