compline 的定义
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.
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- 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.