Cōm'pline or Cōm'plin, n.

n. [From L. Lat. completa, also complenda, a religious exercise which completes and closes the service of the day, from Lat. complere; Fr. complie, Pr. & Sp. completa, It. compieta. See COMPLETE, v. t.] (Eccl.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the last prayer at night, to be recited after sunset.

The custom of godly men hath been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.