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matutine, a. (and n.)|ˈmætjuːtaɪn|
[ad. L. mātūtīn-us, f. Mātūta (occurring only as the proper name of the goddess of dawn, but prob. orig. appellative), allied to mātūrus early, mature a.]
1. Of or pertaining to the morning; occurring in the morning.
c1445Lydg. Nightingale 187 This oure of morow, cleped matutyne, Falsly be-trayed. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 38 The crepusculyne lyne matutine of the norht norht est orizone. a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 166 The first [canonical hour] they call the matutine, before the sunne rising. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xii. 62 [They] hint a Lunation following the next Feria at hor. 2 Matutine. 1848Clough Bothie i. 32 Hewson and Hobbes were down at the matutine bathing. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. ix. 279 Covent Garden awoke to its matutine business.
b. Of a star; spec. in Astron. and Astrol.: That rises or is above the horizon before sunrise.
1500–20Dunbar Poems i. 4 Wp sprang the goldyn candill matutyne. 1601Holland Pliny I. 587 According as the said stars begin either to shine out or bee hidden in the morning before the Sun be up, or at evening after the Sunne is set, they..are named Matutine or Vespertine. 1652–62Heylyn Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 109 The rising and setting of the Stars, whether..Matutine, or Vespertine, as the Artists phrase it. 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 449 She [Venus] is..Gibbous,..as well when she is Vespertine as Matutine. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol. 286 The Moon is matutine until she has passed her first dichotome.
†2. n. pl. Matins. Obs.
[Cf. a 1602 in sense 1.]1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 287 Matutines: At the first hour, or six of the clock.
Hence ˈmatutinely adv., in the morning.
1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 442 [He] was wont to walk, matutinely, knee-deep into the sea. |