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matinal, a. Now rare.|ˈmætɪnəl|
[ad. F. matinal, f. matin morning: see matin and -al1. Cf. matutinal.]
1. Belonging to or taking place in the morning; early. Also, early-rising, matutinal.
1803M. Charlton Wife & Mistress II. i. 11 To attend the matinal déjeuné's of old Gruffy in town. 1819H. Busk Vestriad v. 276 The grey-ey'd Hours climb up the starry way To meet fair maidens matinal as they. 1842F. Trollope Vis. Italy I. xiv. 219 As if my very matinal son and myself had constituted the whole party. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. v. §9. 30 The matinal chirp of a bird. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. 74 Believing it could be nobody less than the bishop come to alarm them with a matinal visit.
2. Geol. The name given by H. D. Rogers to the third of his subdivisions of the palæozoic strata in the Appalachian chain, and hence to the period at which these were formed.
1858H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylv. II. ii. 749 These periods..are the Primal, Auroral, Matinal, Levant, Surgent [etc.]. Ibid. 783 Depositions and Disturbances of the Matinal Period. 1859Page Handbk. Geol. Terms. 1863Dana Man. Geol. 379 ‘Matinal’ Limestone with blue shale. |