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Selah

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in the Psalms. Mattheson, the musical critic, says the word is equivalent to da capo, and is a direction to the choir to repeat the psalm down to the part thus indicated.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Secular Clergy (The)
Secular Games
Sedan Chairs
Sedrat
Seedy
Seel
Seemurgh
Seian Horse (The)
Seidlitz Water
Seiks (pron. Seeks)
Selah
Selama or Selemeh
Selenē
Seleucidæ
Selim
Seljuks
Sell
Selling Race (A)
Selling the Pass
Seltzer Water
Semiramis of the North