vespertinalis

vespertīnālis, e, adj., = vespertinus (late Lat.), Adaman. Vit. Columb. 3, 30.

vespertinalis [CL vespertinus+-alis], of or pertaining to the evening, (eccl. & mon.) of (the hour or office of) Vespers. a primo pulsu ~is synaxis silentium teneatur RegulC 56; contigit ergo his impedientibus curis ipsum horis ~ibus abesse B. V. Dunst. 11; dum laudes ~es psallendo persolvent Ib. 23; ~i tempore imminente, devotus heros ~em synaxim auditurus Ælnoth Cnut 51; ab hora tertia usque ad ~e officium Found. Waltham 33; Ramesiensis abbas ‥ ad horam ~em ‥ expiravit M. Par. Maj. I 517 (= Flor. Hist. I 517).