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Webster 1913 Edition
Complin
{
, Com′pline
,Com′plin
}Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Complin
COMPLIN
,Noun.