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▪ I. nocturn, n. Eccl.|ˈnɒktɜːn|
[a. F. nocturne, ad. late or med.L. nocturna fem. sing. of nocturnus: see next.]
1. In the Roman Catholic Church, one of the divisions of the office of matins (see quot. 1526).
The first quot. may belong to sense 2.
a1225Ancr. R. 270 Seie ȝet, he seið, one nocturne. a1400Prymer (1891) 83 Here bygynneth þe þridde nocturne. c1425St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia VIII. 108/31 And so..she solempnyzes þe watches of the firste nocturne. Ibid. 109/22 Þe firste nocturne of matyns. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 34 The next night after when y was at matens aboute the begynnyng of the thirde nocturne. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 248 In matyns communly be iii orbes, otherwyse called iii nocturnes, of y⊇ whiche euery orbe conteyneth iij psalmes, iii lessons, and iii responsories. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxxi. 222 Being at that time in Oratory, and having recited the Nocturn, and saying those very devout prayers which are at the end thereof. 1706in Cotes tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. (1725) II. v. 43 He says..that the Name Mattins is very improperly given to the Night-Office..; that the Night-Office is divided into three Nocturns, which are said at three different times. 1840Browning Sordello iv. 969 Some brother spoke, Ere nocturns, of Crescentius. 1884Catholic Dict. (1897) 101/2 The lections of the second nocturn which contain the history of the Saints.
†2. (See quots. 1546 and 1548–9.) Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 435/1 He begynneth and saith a psalme that is in the thyrd nocturne of the psaulter. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxvi. 30/1 He sayd many orisons, euery daye a nocturne of the psalter, matyns of our lady. 1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. de Invent. vi. ii. 114 The diuision of Dauids Psalter into vii partes called noctournes according to the seuen daies in the weke was the worke of Hierome. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer Pref., The auncient fathers had deuided the psalmes into seuen porcions: whereof euery one was called a nocturne.
▪ II. † nocturn, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. F. nocturne or L. nocturnus: see next.]
Nocturnal.
15..in Dunbar's Poems (S.T.S.) App. xi. 26 We may nocht in this vale of bale abyd, Ourdirkit with the sable clud nocturn. 1636R. Brathwait Rom. Emp. 214 Vesuvius..covered the face of Italy..with nocturne darknesse in the day. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iii. 78 A cloudy, dark, nocturne Philosophie. 1762C. Denis in St. James's Mag. I. 133 What would be this nocturn sprite. |