matins
- n the first canonical hour; at daybreak
- When several monks failed to appear for matins at 4 a.
- Great iron bells that for centuries sounded matins and vespers had been carried away, to be melted down for the Nazi war machine.
- Our traditional forms of matins and evensong, presupposing as they do acceptance of the tradition of the Church and unfailing regularity of use, are largely unsuitable.