{ Com"pline , 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.
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