compline

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The word compline comes from the Latin word complere_, to complete, to finish, because this Hour completes or finishes the day Hours of the Office.

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  1. noun The last of the seven canonical hours recited or sung just before retiring.
  2. noun The time of day appointed for this service.

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  • Then they left him hunkered down viewing the crime scene from multiple angles and turning things over with his stick After compline, a procession of monks carrying fat candles set out for the hollow oak Father Boniface had decided was St. Magnus's Tree. —  EQMM,December2006
  • I'm using this book for matins and noon prayer as well as vespers and compline. the original editor of Ad Busters: Geez Magazine —  Sarcastic Lutheran
  • And so here they are (some participating in compline or Eucharistic Adoration, others praying the Rosary, still others texting, talking outside, or sleeping). —  The Corner
  • I have now a little evening service--compline--in my rooms at 10 o'clock; Masterman asked me to have it. —  Letters to His Friends
  • He was too weary to say vespers or compline, and presently he fell asleep, but whether it was common sleep or not I do not know In his sleep it seemed to him that he was walking along a path beneath trees, as he had walked on his way to London; but it was twilight, and he could not see clearly. —  The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary
 

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  1. Middle English, alteration (probably influenced by matines, matins) of compli, from Old French complie, from Medieval Latin (hōra) complēta, final (hour), from Latin complētus, past participle of complēre, to complete; see complete.
 

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/ˈkɑmplɪn/
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