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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring;
[syn: compline, complin]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

compline n 1: last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring [syn: compline, complin]