mattins

1. (rare outside Anglicanism) Synonym of matins or morning prayerExamples: "Every Sunday those of us who still go to Mattins will say the prayer of Saint Chrysostom containing the request “Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting”."; "Mattins is the first of the large Sunday services, in which the Morning Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 is sung"; "Common practice today is to refer to the choral or sung version of the service as Mattins (or Matins) and the spoken version as Morning Prayer."Synonyms: matins or morning prayer