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psallere [CL < ψάλλειν] 1 to play on a plucked instrument (in quot. psaltery or cithara). b (gen.) to play (on a musical instrument). quis psalmista pius psallebat cantibus olim Aldh. VirgV 68; ~ens David cithara fugat a Saul spiritum malignum Ad. Dore Pictor 157.  b ~ebat in tympano sive in cithara sive alio quolibet musici generis instrumento Osb. V. Dunst. 9 p. 80. 2 (mus., usu. eccl.) to chant, intone, sing according to a chant: a (absol.); b (iron.); c (w. acc. or dir. speech); d (dist. from. dicere). e (pr. ppl. as sb.) one who chants or sings (in a choir), chanter. a si quis ‥ ebrietatis causa ~ere non potest ‥ cena privatur Gildas Pen. 10; consona vocis armonia ~entes [gl.: canentes] concorditer cecinerunt Aldh. VirgP 30 p. 268; 693 si quis in quacunque festivitate ad ecclesiam veniens pallat [v. l. spallit, i. e. psallit] foris aut saltat aut cantat orationes amatorias ‥ excommunicatur (Judicium Clementis) Conc. HS III 227; cum ‥ omnis congregatio, hinc fratrum, inde sororum, ~ens circumstaret Bede HE IV 17 p. 245; 802 nec tibi sit ursorum saltantium cura sed clericorum spallentium Alcuin Ep. 244; post ea lux abiit, vir spallit, nocte secuta, / mensque fit interius, fit ab hoste foris caro tuta Nig. Paul. f. 48v. 395; ~ere Domino qui mirabilia fecit in Israel [cf. Psalm. xcvii 1] G. Hen. V 14 p. 98.  b 11‥ vir de Norfokia ‥ / casu reperiens equino stercore / magnum scarbocium, qui statim psallere / applaudens incipit ‥ / “o pulcra volucris ‥ / ‥ / ha! þu mi swete brid!” (Descr. Norfolciensium 175) T. Wright, Early Mysteries and Other Latin Poems (1838) 97.  c sexagesimi septimi psalmi primum versum ~ebat Felix Guthl. 34 p. 110; ex quibus Isaias precelso dogmate fretus / Jeremias pariter Domini miracula psallunt Alcuin Carm. 70. 1. 4; erectique dehinc preconia psallere laudum / coepimus Wulf. Swith. II 48; professus sum monachus [v. l. monachum] et ~am [AS: ic sincge] omni die septem sinaxes cum fratribus Ælf. Coll. 90; ut in aeternum ~at tota substantia mea: ‘benedictus Dominus in aeternum, fiat, fiat’ [Psalm. lxxxviii 53] Anselm (Or. 7) III 25; quindecim graduum psalmis quos ~ere semper moris habebat percantatis Eadmer V. Osw. 34 p. 37; per plateas [Picti] ~ebant: “dignus est Vortigernus imperio” G. Mon. VI 7; cepit ~ere septem psalmos penitentiales cum letania A. Tewk. Add. Thom. 14 p. 334.  d dicant ‥ psalmos penitenciales ‥ incipientes eos ~ere cum exeunt de capitulo Cust. Westm. 260; horas canonicas ‥ ~ere vel convenienter dicere et devote Lit. Cant. II 255.  e inter ~entium voces et gemitus orantium subito reddita sibi sanitate intuebatur astantes Ailr. Ed. Conf. 784C; animatus ~entium voce in basilica Sancti Martini Turonis dicentium: “percinxisti me, Domine, virtute ad bellum” R. Niger Chr. I 51; dum nocturnum officium chorus ~entium celebravit V. Edm. Rich P 1797A; si non valeat sustinere clamorem ~encium Rolle IA 238; 1400 quia librorum hujusmodi [tonariorum] defectus in tonizacione psalmodie inter ~entes in choro ‥ discordancias disseminant (Vis.) Fabr. York 244; libri in choro ‥ sunt nimis defectivi et varios et plures causantur defectus et discordancias inter sallentes in choro Ib. 245. 3 (pr ppl. as adj.) that pertains to chanting; (liber ~ens) ‘singing-book’, book from which a choir sings. 1590 solut’ magistro Jameson pro papiro ‥ expendit circa libros ~entes conscribendos Anglice pricking the bookes DCLinc. Bj/3/9, 1609/10 f. 224.

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