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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
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."
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