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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The last of the seven canonical hours, originally said after the evening meal and before retiring to sleep, but in later medieval and modern usage following immediately upon vespers.

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  • noun Alternative form of compline.

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  • noun last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring

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  • (n): the last devotional service of the day, marking the seventh canonical hour; the last division in the Roman Catholic breviary; the last prayer of the day, said after sunset. Also compline.

    January 18, 2009