Definitions for compline

compline com·pline

Spelling: [kom-plin, -plahyn]
IPA: /ˈkɒm plɪn, -plaɪn/

Compline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 317 anagrams from letters in compline (ceilmnop).

Definitions for compline

noun

  1. 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.

Origin of compline

1175-1225; Middle English comp(e)lin, equivalent to compli, cump(e)lie (Old French complie, cumplie Latin complēta (hōra) complete (hour) + -in (of Examples for compline

As for compline, it resounds when night, the symbol of death, has come.

He has been with me a week, and every day we have had matins, compline, and evensong.

But the bell rang for compline, and the brothers passed into church.

Many stay away from compline and from matins and they drink after compline.

It is my fault, my own fault, my own great fault, as we say in the compline confession.

Songs of thanksgiving were uplifted that night at compline in the choir.

The company then withdrew for compline, and as they ended the xci.

"It is eight o'clock, and I must be back to compline," he said.

In 1263, it was ordered that Vespers and compline should be said together.

Then followed compline, and then the monks were ready for bed, and retired to the dortor.

Word Value for compline
Scrable

14

Words with friends

19

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