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Last of the seven canonical hours
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compline
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring [syn: complin ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compline \Com"pline\, Complin \Com"plin\, n. [From OE. complie, OF. complie, F. complies, pl., fr. LL. completa (prop. fem. of L. completus) the religious exercise which completes and closes the service of the day. See Complete .] (Eccl.) The last division ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the last canonical service of the day, early 13c., cumplie , compelin , from Old French complie (12c.), from Latin completa (hora) , from completus (see complete (adj.)); with unexplained -n- .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Compline (from the Latin completorium for "completion") may refer to: Compline , a liturgy of night prayers, last of the canonical hours , observed by several Christian churches. "Compline" is poem from the seven-poem series Horae Canonicae by Anglo-American ...
Usage examples of compline.
Sandra Compline is to be believed, Miss Chloris broke off her engagement to Nicholas.
Compline brothers to become reconciled because you have given Nicholas an opportunity to do his barn-yard strut before Chloris Wynne?
The bell tolled the end of Compline, and she recalled belatedly that she had other obligations.
Distantly, voices raised in the service of Compline, the last prayer of the day.
IN the evening, Alain left the chapel in the pause between Vespers and Compline to walk through the silence until he reached the great hall.
He heard the whisper Compline, muted by distance, stone walls, and the ripening comprehension of the Lavas clerics.
In the brief interlude between Vespers and Compline, Rosvita went in to pay her respects.
There was a sound like a nun coughing discreetly during Compline, and a thin trace of smoke trickled from the end of the barrel.
Sweetly now from above came down to them the chimes of compline from the priory, as the bells called the monks to prayer.
They were glad enough to kneel with her as she sang a brief Compline service over the baby to give it the protection of God's blessing for the night.
Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses.
One day slipped into the next here confined in the rock walls, shrouded from the world outside, and the only constant was the round of prayer, the canonical hours that slid one into the next, Vigils becoming Lauds becoming Primri becoming Terce becoming Sext becoming Nones becoming Vespers be coming Compline becoming Vigils again.
The Office in progress was Compline, which closed the canonical hours for the day, and in two orderly lines the Gabrilite brethren, priests, Healers, and a few older students were filing out of their stalls and up the center aisle to make a reverence before their abbot and then conjure handfire symbolically from the light in his hands.
Far in the distance, they could hear the cathedral bells striking Compline, last of the canonical hours.
Matins and lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, vespers and compline: at each of the canonical hours and often between them, prayers for a north wind rose from the churches of Kutali, prayers far more fervent than Jack or his advisers had imagined at first.