Vesper (bell)

vesper







Y

【天】(大寫) 長庚星



D



–noun 

1. (initial capital letter) the evening star, esp. Venus; Hesper.

2. Also called vesper bell. a bell rung at evening. 



3. vespers, (sometimes initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. 

a. a religious service in the late afternoon or the evening.

b. the sixth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, occurring in the late afternoon or the evening.

c. Roman Catholic Church. a part of the office to be said in the evening by those in major orders, frequently made a public ceremony in the afternoons or evenings of Sundays and holy days.

d. evensong.  



canonical

根據教會法的

evensong

晚禱,晚課

 

4. Archaic. evening.  



–adjective 

5. of, pertaining to, appearing in, or proper to the evening.

6. of or pertaining to vespers. 





　

There follows his pain at being unable to comfort a mute parishioner, who goes directly from the interview to commit suicide. Finally there is his anguish as he dutifully rises to conduct vesper services in an empty church.





Benediction 

Eucharist

sacrament

orgy

tonsure 

liturgical

Liturgical music is heard as Nikolai kneels in his underwear

anoint

an avowed fan who in Esquire once [anointed] Anderson "the next Scorsese"

Hierophant



nebulous

as equally nebulous as the [strange] land to which he has been

aureola

halo

areola

and then a [golden] aureole of beauty, a body in movement.

corona 

wide-eyed and pouty, with a great corona of frizzy [hair]

crescent 

meridian

Crypto