compline

/kom-plin, -plahyn/US // ˈkɒm plɪn, -plaɪn //UK // (ˈkɒmplɪn, -plaɪn) //

复杂化,复杂的,复杂性,复杂

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Ecclesiastical.
- : the last of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally occurring after the evening meal but now usually following immediately upon vespers.

Michael, where he knelt in the ante-chapel, was profoundly moved by the intimate responses and the severe Compline hymn.
It was when the bells were ringing, at the hour of compline and of matins, that she could best hear their words.
They said the well-known compline psalms, familiar then in England from their nightly use.
After compline, talk; Fray Juan Perez, the good man, comfortable in his great chair before the fire.
On his return, still thin and wan, he resumed his duties, and from Prime to Compline missed no service.