Definition of "complin" [complin]

• Alternative form of compline. (noun)

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• "At prime, tierce, sext, none, vespers, complin, and the midnight office, they daily sung the whole psalter, which every sister was obliged to know by heart."
• "Lady's office, of the psalms in the office for the dead, of the gradual and seven penitential psalms, and of the psalms sung at vespers and complin, is excellent."
• "“Te lucis ante terminum, ” the first verse of the hymn in the last part of the sacred office, termed “complin."