compline

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Complin

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

complin mass vesper church complete full whole completed entire vespers fully meeting duty comprehensive thorough

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Antonyms

partial insufficient shallow incomplete inadequate wanting

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Hypernyms

canonical hour

Examples

Challoner translated the entirety of the Lady Office into English, as well as Sunday Vespers and daily Compline. Source: Internet

For Sundays and special feasts Lauds and Vespers largely remained the same, Psalm 118 remained distributed at the Little Hours and Psalms 4, 90, and 130 were kept at Compline. Source: Internet

In the Slavic practice, at the end of Vespers, Compline is immediately served, featuring a special Canon of the Crucifixion of our Lord and the Lamentation of the Most Holy Theotokos by Symeon the Logothete. Source: Internet

When a feast on the moveable cycle occurs, the feast on the fixed cycle that was set for that calendar day is transferred, with the propers of the feast often being chanted at Compline on the nearest convenient day. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

compliments of the house compliments of the season complin compling complish complisult