Matutinal

Word of the Day for Tuesday April 26, 2005

matutinal \muh-TOOT-n-uhl\, adjective:
Relating to or occurring in the morning; early.

Get up early and wash your face in the matutinal May Day
dew; it will make your skin beautiful and your heart pure.
--Ray Murphy, "Hurray, Hurray the Month of May," [1]Boston
Globe, April 28, 1988

We had to rehearse at an hour at which no actor or actress
has been out of bed within the memory of man; and we
sardonically congratulated one another every morning on our
rosy matutinal looks and the improvement wrought by our
early rising in our health and characters.
--George Bernard Shaw, "The Author's Apology," [2]Mrs.
Warren's Profession

Harry Truman, was -- like Winston Churchill -- known to
take a matutinal shot of whisky. He did it after his
regular very vigorous early-morning walk.
--R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., "Plainly presidential," [3]The
Washington Times, January 18, 2002
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Matutinal is from Late Latin matutinalis, from Latin
matutinus, "early in the morning; pertaining to the morning."

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And an older pic i took. I wanted to take a similar picture today, but given that I didn't get the word until 1PM thanks to dictionary.com not updating their site...this will have to do: