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CANONICAL HOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("canonical hour" is a kind of...):
hour; time of day (clock time)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "canonical hour"):
matins; morning prayer (the first canonical hour; at daybreak)
prime (the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.)
terce; tierce (the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.)
sext (the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon)
nones (the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m.)
evensong; vespers (the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays)
complin; compline (last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring)
