1) Office of matins division 2) Psalter portion
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• (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night. • (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. • (n.) An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night. • (n.) One of the portions into which the Psalter was div...
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Noc'turn noun [ French
nocturne , from Latin
nocturnus . See
Nocturnal , and confer
Nocturne .]
1. An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.
2. One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, desig...
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nocturn In the Roman Catholic Church, one of the three divisions of the service of matins, previously held at midnight but now usually at daybreak.
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the office of matins, consisting of nine psalms and either three or nine lessons.
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