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
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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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