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单词 matinal
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matinaladj.

Brit. /ˈmatᵻn(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈmætn̩əl/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French matinal.
Etymology: < French matinal (12th cent. in Old French) < matin morning (see matins n.) + -al -al suffix1. Compare earlier matutinal adj.
1. = matutinal adj. 1.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [adjective]
earlyOE
rathea1425
matutinalc1450
matutinec1450
morning1535
antemeridian1592
betimely1594
grey-eyed1597
matins1643
ante-jentacular1796
matinal1803
matutinary1858
pre-luncheon1909
1803 M. Charlton Wife & Mistress (ed. 2) II. i. 11 To attend the matinal déjeuné's of old Gruffy in town.
1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. v. §9. 30 The matinal chirp of a bird.
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. 74 Believing it could be nobody less than the bishop come to alarm them with a matinal visit.
1908 J. Davidson Testament 37 The earth with its seas and its skies, Its flowers and its matinal dew.
1991 E. S. Connell Alchymist's Jrnl. (1992) 100 Wounds contracted past noon are less auspicious than matinal injuries.
2.
a. = matutinal adj. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [adjective] > rising early
matinal1819
matutinal1834
matutine1850
yary1925
1819 H. Busk Vestriad v. 276 The grey-ey'd Hours climb up the starry way To meet fair maidens matinal as they.
1842 F. Trollope Visit to Italy I. xiv. 219 As if my very matinal son and myself had constituted the whole party.
1997 Church Times 11 Apr. 20/3 I am, metabolically speaking, one of Bishop Heber's sons of the morning: a matinal man who is fast asleep before the epilogue.
b. Entomology. Of, relating to, or designating insects that are only active in the early morning.
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1970 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 43 251 (title) Some competitive relationships among matinal and late afternoon foraging activities of caupolicanine bees.
1985 Biotropica 17 217 Visitors that remove nectar, but are ineffective pollinators include seven Euglossa spp. and three species of matinal butterflies (Hesperiidae).
1997 Jrnl. Thermal Biol. 22 453 Activity patterns are..either matinal, crepuscular, or bimodal; essentially desert bees avoid heat and adapt to cold desert dawns and dusks.
3. Geology. In form Matinal. Of, relating to, or designating the third of fifteen subdivisions into which the geologist H. D. Rogers divided the Palaeozoic strata of the Appalachian mountain system. Obsolete.
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1858 H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylvania II. ii. 749 These periods..are the Primal, Auroral, Matinal, Levant, Surgent [etc.].
1858 H. D. Rogers Geol. Pennsylvania II. ii. 783 Depositions and Disturbances of the Matinal Period.
1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 379Matinal’ Limestone with blue shale.
1876 Virginia: Geogr. & Polit. Summary 22 (table) Systems of geological classification compared... Pennsylvania and Virginia Names—H. D. & W. B. Rogers... Cambrian..Matinal. Auroral. Primal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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