(n.) A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.
Example Sentences:
(1) A vicar once explained to me that the reason the congregation stands for much of the music at Evensong is that, "It's not a concert."
(2) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(3) He preached a doctrine of returning schools to local communities, but it apparently never occurred to him that Britons other than those he might encounter at evensong might avail themselves of the opportunity.
(4) A special evensong involving visiting choirs to mark the 150th anniversary of the Hymns Ancient and Modern publication has been moved to Southwark Cathedral, south of the Thames.
(5) Despite all this, Sidney must find the killer and be back in time for evensong.
(6) Once Evensong is over and we’ve re-entered 21st-century London, he tells me he is still drawn to the transcendental tropes in sacred music – “But in my work they’re then hammered, moulded, inverted, eviscerated, pushed into another realm.” Less Paradise Lost, more paradise pummelled.
(7) Stranger still was his admission that he had been to evensong in Hereford Cathedral the previous evening and had met fellow atheist Christopher Grayling as he left.
(8) The dean, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, said he was "optimistic" that the London landmark would reopen in time for Evensong after the Occupy the London Stock Exchange movement rearranged some tents, but he did not rule out legal action in the future to remove the camp.
Vespers
Definition:
(n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.
(n.) The evening song or service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lumbosacral and associated leg pain and paresthesias arousing patients from a sound sleep, or Vesper's curse, has been previously reported.
(2) Why monteverdi wrote the vespers of the holy virgin when he wrote them, how the reformation affected music, how the first and second world war affected both classical music and art music and jazz and popular music - it’s an incredible project.” Fred Deakin for Modulations Photograph: Supplied Jones is also looking forward to the Modulations program, curated by Modular’s Steve Pavlovic and headlined by the Pet Shop Boys.
(3) The motor equivalent of Vesper's curse was evaluated by electromography, evoked potentials, CAT scan, and myelography.
(4) On the contrary, laboratory mice and cricetids failed to show Hantavirus infection while the wild vesper mouse Calomys musculinus (the main Junin virus reservoir) showed a prevalence of 23.5%.
(5) Hume's first act was to lead the monks of Ampleforth to Westminster Abbey to sing vespers there for the first time since the Reformation.
(6) Cameron was likened to a Vesper Martini, a Mercedes, Dick Dastardly and Hugh Grant.
(7) A mycobacterial antigens circadian variation in correlation with vesperal fever in tuberculous patients was not revealed.
(8) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
(9) While St John Paul II and Benedict XVI celebrated mass in Yankee stadium during their New York visits, Francis will celebrate mass for a slightly smaller crowd in Madison Square Garden, and preside over a vespers service at the newly spruced-up St Patrick’s Cathedral.
(10) With apologies to Vesper Lynd , if the only thing left of The Living Daylights was Maryam d'Abo's smile and the taut early sequence that culminates with Timothy Dalton's 007 deliberately missing a shot at cellist turned sniper Kara Milovy , it would still be my favourite Bond film.
(11) 3) non offset venous insufficiency with frequent, if not continuous, vesperal edema.
(12) "Vesperal" urinary cortisol measured on a collected urine sample between 20 h and 24 h was higher in pregnant women since the beginning of pregnancy as compared to that of non pregnant women.
(13) A 23-year-old male Pondichery native consulted for vesperal dispnoea.