Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fulfilling; accomplishing.
  • noun Same as complin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to fulfill.
  • noun (Eccl.) Same as compline.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A compline.

Etymologies

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Latin completorium.

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Examples

  • He announces his subject as one of such lofty claims; he begins with positions taken on such high ground, no less than the superior dignity and spiritual importance of Confirmation above Baptism itself -- whether considered as a sacramental rite and mystery distinct from Baptism, or as its completory and crowning part (the 'finis coronans opus') -- that we are eager to hear the proof.

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

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