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Definition of compline in English: complinenoun ˈkɒmplʌɪnˈkɒmplɪnˈkɑmplɪn A service of evening prayers forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, traditionally said (or chanted) before retiring for the night. 晚祷（西派基督教教会每日例行宗教仪式的一个部分，传统上在就寝前以诵读或咏唱方式进行） Example sentencesExamples - The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
- After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
- With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
- I cannot be concentrating on reciting lauds and compline at church, or on private prayers at home, and at the same time fully attend to my granddaughter's emotional needs - or talk over some thorny bioethical question with my husband.
- The final church, St Nicholas at Fyfield, was reached shortly after 4pm where the day was completed with tea followed by compline.
- So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book.
- Later in the evening came compline, followed by the midnight office.
- The 30-minute worship draws upon an Anglican prayer service from New Zealand, Lutheran or Episcopal compline, and Holden Evening Prayer.
- At compline, a guitar was played and the psalmody was clearly not Gregorian.
- It ends 16 hours later with compline, after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French complie, feminine past participle of obsolete complir 'to complete', from Latin complere 'fill up' (see complete). The ending -ine was probably influenced by Old French matines 'matins'. Definition of compline in US English: complinenounˈkɑmplɪnˈkämplin A service of evening prayers forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, traditionally said (or chanted) before retiring for the night. 晚祷（西派基督教教会每日例行宗教仪式的一个部分，传统上在就寝前以诵读或咏唱方式进行） Example sentencesExamples - It ends 16 hours later with compline, after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
- At compline, a guitar was played and the psalmody was clearly not Gregorian.
- So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book.
- With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
- Later in the evening came compline, followed by the midnight office.
- I cannot be concentrating on reciting lauds and compline at church, or on private prayers at home, and at the same time fully attend to my granddaughter's emotional needs - or talk over some thorny bioethical question with my husband.
- After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
- The 30-minute worship draws upon an Anglican prayer service from New Zealand, Lutheran or Episcopal compline, and Holden Evening Prayer.
- The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
- The final church, St Nicholas at Fyfield, was reached shortly after 4pm where the day was completed with tea followed by compline.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French complie, feminine past participle of obsolete complir ‘to complete’, from Latin complere ‘fill up’ (see complete). The ending -ine was probably influenced by Old French matines ‘matins’. |