compline

Examples

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• All through the service of vespers and compline, in the moments between the monks' chants, the sound of the drilling rig pierced the quietness of the chapel.

  Fiction book (1993)

• It had the contemplative prayer and music we'd been using at a compline service as its base.

  Blog text (8)

• "We are now six," St. Ed announced to the group one night during compline.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Let's go for a walk before Compline.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Compline in dark country churches.

  Blog text (33)

• The two postulants are sitting on the bench, taking turns practicing the responses to Compline.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Water clocks chimed Compline, and D'Cey retired to the family library.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The splash of holy water is the bedtime blessing that all monks and guests receive on exiting a Benedictine monastery chapel after Compline, the last communal prayer of the day.

  Academic text (2000)

• The fluttering pages of the open codices, the fall of the shadows, the alerted dog, and the poised pen all suggest the momentariness of that moment, the evening hour of compline, as Augustine tells us.

  Academic text (2005)

• The Divine Office was subjected to a rapidly changing series of adaptations; bravely, I held on to my Collegeville Short Breviary and to the Collegeville edition of Lauds, Vespers, and Compline.

  Blog text (28)

Synonyms

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complin

vscompline

• UK

1 9.9

A short prayer service said or sung just before bed

is the same hour but spelled as an alternate form

Surface Forms

Etymology