Crossword clues for compline
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 of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.
The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening
with a compline of prayer at nine of the night.
--Hammond.
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-.
Wiktionary
n. the last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring
WordNet
n. last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring [syn: complin]
Wikipedia
Compline ( ; also Complin, Night Prayer, Prayers at the End of the Day) is the final church service (or office) of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours. The English word Compline is derived from the Latin completorium, as Compline is the completion of the working day. The word was first used in this sense about the beginning of the 6th century by St. Benedict in his Rule (Regula Benedicti; hereafter, RB), in Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 42, and he even uses the verb complere to signify Compline: "Omnes ergo in unum positi compleant" ("All having assembled in one place, let them say Compline"); "et exeuntes a completorio" ("and, after going out from Compline...") (RB, Chap. 42).
Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, and certain other Christian denominations with liturgical traditions prescribe Compline services. Compline tends to be a contemplative Office that emphasizes spiritual peace. In many monasteries it is the custom to begin the "Great Silence" after Compline, during which the whole community, including guests, observes silence throughout the night until the morning service the next day.
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 poet W.H. Auden published in The Shield of Achilles (1955)
- "Compline" is a short poem from the series "Horae Canonicae" by Scottish poet Donald Davie (1922-1995).
Compline is a septet for flute, clarinet, harp, and string quartet by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center through an award from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. It was first performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on December 6, 1996 at Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The piece is dedicated to the memory of Natalie and Serge Koussevitzky.
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.