compline : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: compline	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for compline
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
compline n last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring Synonym(s): compline, complin
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Compline \Com"pline\, Complin \Com"plin\, n. [From 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.