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Definition of Nocturns
1. nocturn [n] - See also: nocturn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nocturns
Literary usage of Nocturns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As a matter of fact the Office of the Vigils, and consequently of the nocturns,
was a single Office, recited without interruption at midnight. ..."
2. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1854)
"Chapters on the other offices,—vespers, compline, the nocturns and lauds, and
the minor hours, conclude this portion of a work which is as useful and ..."
3. A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediæval Writers: And from the by John Mason Neale, Richard Frederick Littledale, Miles Coverdale (1879)
"Saturday : nocturns. Quignon. Friday : Matins. ANTIPHONS. Gregorian. Ferial.
O LOBD GOD * haste Thee to deliver me. [Maundy Thursday : The zeal of Thine ..."
4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Pss. 3 and 94 [95] are said daily before nocturns. P»s. ... Each decuria is
divided into three nocturns, and is said under three ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The number of psalms and lessons, and the number of nocturns at the night office
was increased. The Gregorian distribution of the Psalter gives eighteen ..."
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