'Compline' definitions:
Definition of 'compline'
(from WordNet)
noun
Last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring [syn: compline, complin]
Definition of 'Compline'
From: GCIDE
- Compline \Com"pline\, Complin \Com"plin\, n. [From OE. complie, OF. complie, F. complies, pl., fr. LL. completa (prop. fem. of L. completus) the religious exercise which completes and closes the service of the day. See Complete.] (Eccl.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset. [1913 Webster]
- The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]