Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The last of the seven canonical hours, originally said after the evening meal and before retiring to sleep, but in later medieval and modern usage following immediately upon vespers.
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- noun Alternative form of
compline .
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- noun last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring
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Examples
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Lady's office, of the psalms in the office for the dead, of the gradual and seven penitential psalms, and of the psalms sung at vespers and complin, is excellent.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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At prime, tierce, sext, none, vespers, complin, and the midnight office, they daily sung the whole psalter, which every sister was obliged to know by heart.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Te lucis ante terminum, the first verse of the hymn in the last part of the sacred office, termed complin.
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He hid himself in the grand portico, which he had so often passed through to go to mass or complin within, and presently his heart gave a great leap, for he saw the straw-enwrapped stove brought out and laid with infinite care on the bullock dray.
Bimbi 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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After hearing the complin vespers in the temporary chapel fitted up in that unfinished abbey of Westminster, which occupied the site of the temple of Apollo [53], the King and his guests repaired to their evening meal in the great hall of the palace.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Gurth and Harold were seated in close commune in the Earl's chamber, at an hour long after the complin (or second vespers), when Alred entered unexpectedly.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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After hearing the complin vespers in the temporary chapel fitted up in that unfinished abbey of Westminster, which occupied the site of the temple of Apollo [53], the King and his guests repaired to their evening meal in the great hall of the palace.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Gurth and Harold were seated in close commune in the Earl's chamber, at an hour long after the complin (or second vespers), when Alred entered unexpectedly.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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For example, in one of the psalms used by the Church of Rome at complin, and with the rest repeated in the Church of England, and prophetic of the
Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary James Endell Tyler 1820
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Singleby you should not spread rumours, If you put as much energy in to promotiong your cause and the arrse website on twitter instead of annoying that person/people you would have cause to complin. from what we have read considering you are a charity bear you dont swear at people
Army Rumour Service 2009
hernesheir commented on the word complin
(n): the last devotional service of the day, marking the seventh canonical hour; the last division in the Roman Catholic breviary; the last prayer of the day, said after sunset. Also compline.
January 18, 2009