hymnody

hymnilaulu puhekieltä The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms.
1721, (w), "Vrania: or, the Spouſe's Garden", The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious, Thomas Ken, D.D., Vol. IV, J. Wyat, page http://books.google.com/books?id=ODk1AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA448&dq=hymnody+date:1701-1800&lr=&num=30&as_brr=0 448,

Primeval worship Worſhip, Lord, retrieve, / For whose whoſe Decays the Faithful grieve, / For as thy Temple-offerings|Off'rings fall or riſe, / Hymnody chills or fires, Religion lives or dies.

Therefore do we recite this seraphic Seraphick Theology delivered to us, that in that celestial cæleſtial Hymnody we may communicate with the w:Heavenly Host|Heavenly Hoſt …