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Compline : (noun)
1: last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring [syn:
complin]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Compline : \Com"pline\, Complin \Com"plin\, n. [Based on 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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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