Definition of "vesperal" [ves•per•al]

• A book containing the words and hymns to be used at vespers. (noun)
• A covering used to protect an altar cloth between services. (noun)
• Of or relating to vesper or vespers. (adjective)

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• "Crome calls me like the voice of vesperal bells, Haunts like a ghostly-peopled necropole."
• "That evening our camp was pitched on a little stream where trout and deer each had the repute of normal habitat, but it grieveth me to say that neither the vesperal or matutinal board gave evidence of either."
• "Prior to the composition of the current Paschal Vigil of St. John of Damascus [3] this day's vesperal Liturgy was the main Easter celebration, and the traditional time to receive converts is still after the Vesperal Divine Liturgy."