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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]:
complin
n : last of the seven canonical hours [syn: {compline}]
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