matins, mattins, matynes, matyns

pl. [Fr. matines, from Lat. matutinæ ( hora )= (the hours) of the morning; Port. matin as; Sp. maitines.] 2649 I. Literally and Ecclesiastically: 1. Anglican: The daily office of Morning Prayer. It is composed in part of the pre-Reformation offices of Matins and Lauds. [2.] 2. Roman : The first portion of the Divine Office [OFFICE, 1], with which Lauds are usually a ociated. On Sun days and double feasts matins have three nocturns; on simple feasts and week-days, one nocturn (q. v.). Easter and Pentecost have each only one nocturn, with three psalms. After private prayer versicles and responses are recited; the invitatory psalm follows. In the first nocturn are said three psalms on feast days, twelve when the office is of the Sunday, and three le ons from Scripture; the second and third nocturns have each three psalms, and the le ons are chosen from the patris tic writings for the second, and from some com mentary on the gospel of the day for the third nocturn. On feasts of Saints the lections of the second nocturn are usually biographical. Lauds consist of five psalms, the little chapter, a hymn, the canticle Benedictus , collect, and commemorations, if any. II. Fig .: A morning song. "The merry larke her mattins sings aloft." Spenser: Epithalamion. măt-lock-ite, s . [Named after the place near which it was found, Matlock; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min.: A tetragonal mineral occurring in crystals of a tabular habit. Cleavage, basal, imperfect. Hardne , 2.5-3; specific gravity, 7'21; luster, adamantine; color, yellowish; transparent. Composition: Chloride of lead, 55.5; oxide of lead, 44'5, corresponding with the formula, PbCl+PbO. Occurs with cromfordite at an old mine near Cromford, Derby shire. The mineral is stated also to have occurred as a sublimation product after the eruption of Vesuvius in 1858.