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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: compline n : last of the seven canonical hours [syn: {complin}]
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