Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or occurring in the morning; early.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the morning; coming or occurring early in the day: as, a matutinal bath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the morning; early.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to or occurring in the morning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Let there be light, and there was a sort of matutinal, * glowing phenomenon that slowly transfused, etc.
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These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding evening.
Les Miserables 2008
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The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
Study of a Woman 2007
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“To see something,” answered Grandet, not duped by the matutinal appearance of his friend.
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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Sauf bien sur quand ca concerne une heure precieuse de sommeil gaché par un reveil matutinal précoce!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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The next morning Rastignac woke late and stayed in bed, giving himself up to one of those matutinal reveries in the course of which a young man glides like a sylph under many a silken, or cashmere, or cotton drapery.
Study of a Woman 2007
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The stewards began preparing breakfast with that matutinal eagerness which they always show.
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I slept a bit earlier than the other two, but was nevertheless surprised to come down the next morning at the advanced hour of 10:30 and not even see the normally-matutinal D downstairs she'd got up earlier and then gone back to bed for an unexpectedly-prolonged snooze.
Bristol and back, with extras badasstronaut 2006
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Pen, putting on his hat, strode forth into the air, and almost over the body of the matutinal housemaid, who was rubbing the steps at the door.
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Mr Robarts escaped to the Dragon of Wantly, partly because he had had enough of the matutinal Mrs Proudie, and partly also in order that he might hurry his friends there.
Framley Parsonage 2004
quotato commented on the word matutinal
MATUTINAL, pertaining to the morning, early. (L.) Matutinal
is in Blount's Gloss., ed. 1674 ; mainline in Kersey, ed. 1715.—
Lat. matutinalis, belonging to the morning ; formed with suffix -alis
from matiitin-us, belonging to the morning ; see further under
Matins.
July 29, 2007
rolig commented on the word matutinal
About someone impeccably clean-shaven: "He spoke, as to cheek and chin, of the joy of the matutinal steel." - Alan Hollinghurst, in The Line of Beauty, riffing on Henry James.
December 5, 2007
leafar commented on the word matutinal
p.45 de Fixer des vertiges. Les photographies de Willy Ronis
February 28, 2008