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matins
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
canonical hour, mid-13c., from Old French matines (12c.), from Late Latin matutinas (nominative matutinæ) "morning prayers," originally matutinas vigilias "morning watches," from Latin matutinus "of or in the morning," associated with Matuta, Roman dawn goddess (see manana). The Old English word was uht-sang, from uhte "daybreak."
Wiktionary
n. 1 together with lauds, the earliest of the canonical hours; normally at sunrise, but often earlier 2 morning prayers
WordNet
n. the first canonical hour; at daybreak [syn: morning prayer]
Wikipedia
Matins is the monastic nighttime liturgy, ending at dawn, of the canonical hours. In the Roman Catholic pre-Vatican-II breviary, it is divided into three nocturns. The name "matins" originally referred to the morning office also known as lauds. When the nocturnal monastic services called vigils or nocturns were joined with lauds, the name of "matins" was applied at first to the concluding morning service and later still to the entire series of vigils.
In the Byzantine Rite these vigils correspond to the aggregate comprising the midnight office, orthros, and the first hour.
In the Anglican tradition, matins or mattins is the morning prayer, consolidating the hours of matins, lauds and prime. Lutherans preserve recognizably traditional matins distinct from morning prayer, but "matins" is sometimes used in other Protestant denominations to describe any morning service.
Matins is the canonical hour ending at dawn in the Roman Catholic monastic Liturgy of the Hours.
Matins may also refer to:
Usage examples of "matins".
It sounded louder and closer than it ever did for matins or vespers, its overtones nearly drowning out the other bells.
He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.
Martin the Bishop: in the night following, before the hour for Matins, his sickness grew heavy on him and he died.
Mary Magdalene, before Matins, died Everard Ens of Campen, a good and faithful Laic and Fellow Commoner, who had lived with us for fifteen years.
Dominic the Confessor, and before Matins, died our most beloved Brother Theodoric of Kleef.
In the same year, on the Octave of the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, when Matins was ended, died our venerable Father, William Voerniken, the fourth Prior of Windesem.
Augustine, before Matins, died the humble and devout Laic, John Bobert, being forty years old.
In the same year, on the day following the Feast of the holy Martyr Maurice and his companions, and after Matins had begun, died our Brother Peter Herbort, a Deacon who was sixty-five years old.
For our Father George, with many of the Brothers, was present with him, but the rest remained in the choir to sing Matins and Lauds.
Luke the Evangelist, and after Matins, Peter, son of John, died of the same plague.
En ce temps-la, les matins etaient doux et limpides, les feuilles vertes frissonnaient innocemment sous la brise legere.
Marina had been heavy-hearted, going at matins and at vespers quite alone to the Madonna at the Duomo, that she might take comfort and counsel.
Holy Mother must shrive me for breaking my vow, for if San Marco and San Teodoro would give me a place between them before the matins ring again--mistaking me for a traitor--I cannot take thee from Venice.
Madonna of San Donato and hath shown bounty, with munificent gifts, to all the parish--will chant the matins in her oratory.
And saith his matins and his holy things, As he goes in his limitatioun.