nocturn

Any of the three canonical divisions of the office of matins.

An organism whose color is different at night from what it is in the daytime. Also nocturne.

Of the night; nightly.

In the early Christian ch., one of several services recited at midnight or between midnight and dawn, and consisting chiefly of psalms and prayers.

The part of the psalter used at nocturns, or the division used at each nocturn.

Same as nocturne, 1.

To be different in color at night from what it is in the daytime; be a nocturn. Also nocturne.

An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service.

The night office of the Christian Liturgy of the Hours, such as is performed in christian monasteries.