complin

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun complin has 1 sense

complin(n = noun.time) compline - last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring; Array

is a kind of canonical hour

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CIDE DICTIONARY

complin, 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.].

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. [1913 Webster]

"The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night." [1913 Webster]

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