An archaic or dialectal term, possibly a variant or related form to complin, though the exact meaning is obscure in historical texts.
Possibly a variant spelling or dialectal form related to 'complin', the evening prayer service, though historical documentation is limited and the word's etymology remains uncertain.
This is one of those ghostly words in English dictionaries—it appears in a few old texts but nobody is quite sure what it meant or where it came from. Medieval spelling variation makes it hard to distinguish between archaic words and simple spelling mistakes.
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