Crossword clues for nocturn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nocturn \Noc"turn\, n. [F. nocturne, fr. L. nocturnus. See Nocturnal, and cf. Nocturne.]
An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.
One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.
--Hook.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
a division of the office of matins, early 13c., from Old French nocturne "evening service; curfew," from Medieval Latin nocturna, "group of Psalms used in the nocturns," from Latin nocturnus (see nocturnal).
Wiktionary
n. The night office of the Christian Liturgy of the Hours, such as is performed in christian monasteries.
Usage examples of "nocturn".
The Abhacan had discovered the Nocturn spring millennia ago as they established mining systems with the Mianach in the Barren Mountains.
The Abhacan drank from Nocturn at her bidding and at first, legend says, her promises came to pass.
They built a massive and impenetrable dam beneath the mountains to stave the flow of Nocturn eternally.
Belgaeran and Herdranges, under the sway of the waters of Nocturn, the control of the duchan and Ciardha.
When I drove the blade through her, I released her spirit into the waters of this very stream, letting her soul free to seep into the current and travel northward beneath the mountains where she found her way to the Nocturn Spring.
He could hear the soft, babbling waters of Nocturn nearby as the edge of the lake lapped against the shore.
He could hear the sounds again, distant banging noises that floated across the black waters of Nocturn, emanating from somewhere deep within the mountains.
When the dam is broken, and the waters of Nocturn flow freely once more, our victory will be complete, our reign eternal.
He felt the water against his lips and he opened his mouth, tasting Nocturn against his tongue, feeling it coursing down his throat as he swallowed.
She stepped through the mirror, and the sole of her boot settled against the damp, cold beach of the Nocturn shoreline.
The lessons read at the third nocturn are patristic homilies on the Gospels, and together form a rough summary of theological instruction.
Belgaeran and Herdranges, under the sway of the waters of Nocturn, the control of the duchan and Ciardha.
This particular Benedictine house was unusually rigorous, separating mattins from lauds, singing the first at midnight, a very long service indeed with the full nocturn, lessons and Te Deum, and the second so that its middle psalm coincided with the rising of the sun.
From the depths of sleep he heard the three nocturns of the new day's Matins in the adjacent sanctuary.
He has coaxed a few out of their hiding places when, late at night before Nocturns, he can't sleep and wanders like a shade from one place to another within the compound, rootless and lost.