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complin

NOUN
  1. last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring

How To Use complin In A Sentence

  • It ends 16 hours later with compline, after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
  • The promoter, who also officiates on the junior grasstrack scene, spotted Complin several years ago and marked him down as one for the future.
  • The final church, St Nicholas at Fyfield, was reached shortly after 4pm where the day was completed with tea followed by compline.
  • When this was over, after a further short interval the evening reading or Collation took place in the chapter-house, after which the monks were at liberty to go and warm themselves at the one great fire kept up for the purpose in the calefactory; and then compline was sung, followed by Our Lady's Anthem. The King's Achievement
  • “Te lucis ante terminum, ” the first verse of the hymn in the last part of the sacred office, termed “complin. Purgatory. Canto VIII
  • The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
  • With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
  • Hydrophilos, having girded his sable cappa magna as high as to his cherubical loins, at solemn compline sat in his sate of wis-dom, that handbathtub, whereverafter, recreated doctor insularis of the universal church, keeper of the door of meditation, memory extempore proposing and intellect formally considering, recluse, he meditated continuously with seraphic ardour the primal sacra-ment of baptism or the regeneration of all man by affusion of water. Finnegans Wake
  • So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book.
  • He planted his watchful mo - ther as a kind of duenna over her, when - ever he rode out to pay his complin: ients tQ the lord of Gravenegg, whofe vaffal he was. Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford].
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