(n.) A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.
Example Sentences:
(1) A vicar once explained to me that the reason the congregation stands for much of the music at Evensong is that, "It's not a concert."
(2) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(3) He preached a doctrine of returning schools to local communities, but it apparently never occurred to him that Britons other than those he might encounter at evensong might avail themselves of the opportunity.
(4) A special evensong involving visiting choirs to mark the 150th anniversary of the Hymns Ancient and Modern publication has been moved to Southwark Cathedral, south of the Thames.
(5) Despite all this, Sidney must find the killer and be back in time for evensong.
(6) Once Evensong is over and we’ve re-entered 21st-century London, he tells me he is still drawn to the transcendental tropes in sacred music – “But in my work they’re then hammered, moulded, inverted, eviscerated, pushed into another realm.” Less Paradise Lost, more paradise pummelled.
(7) Stranger still was his admission that he had been to evensong in Hereford Cathedral the previous evening and had met fellow atheist Christopher Grayling as he left.
(8) The dean, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, said he was "optimistic" that the London landmark would reopen in time for Evensong after the Occupy the London Stock Exchange movement rearranged some tents, but he did not rule out legal action in the future to remove the camp.
Matin
Definition:
(n.) Morning.
(n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.
(n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A freshwater Spirillum sp., which apparently belongs to a niche of low nutritional status (Matin & Veldkamp, 1978), accumulated poly-beta-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) during lactate-limited growth in continuous culture.
(2) Asked about an opinion poll that indicated that a majority of Swiss would support legal assistance for foreign authorities seeking tax evaders, Grübel told Le Matin Dimanche: "I share that view."
(3) In sportsmen-throwers the matinal exchange of rest in conditions of sport gatherings is found to be fairly high.
(4) Prediction may be made from a regression line of saliva versus serum concentration or from an equation proposed by Matin et al.
(5) Moreover, the plasma mexiletine levels calculated by the equation of Matin et al (1974) employing the observed values for the saliva drug level, saliva pH and free fraction of mexiletine in plasma were significantly higher than the observed drug levels.
(6) I went to Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and they had a beautiful chapel where we had matins most days.
(7) "The secondary effects of it are very bad for the health," Hostettmann told Le Matin newspaper last year.
(8) There were a dozen bodies around us.” Nice-Matin journalist Damien Allemand, who was on the waterfront, saw the vehicle swerve, smashing into people “at a crazy speed”.
(9) He told the local paper, Nice Matin , that a woman in a veil was less dangerous than someone who had "double or triple parked".
(10) Starvation proteins synthesized by Escherichia coli at the onset of carbon starvation (R. G. Groat and A. Matin, J. Indust.
(11) To bring about repression of a family fo genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae called the a-specific genes, two transcriptional regulatory proteins, alpha 2 and GRM (general regulator of matin type), bind cooperatively to an operator found upstream of each a-specific gene.
(12) The concept of a relative probability of matin between two phenotypes is used, and this variable can take into account factors such as different propensities for assortment in the various phenotypes and so forth.
(13) The precision and bias of prediction from linear regression and the equation of Matin et al.
(14) The attacker’s computer records showed a “sure and recent interest for radical jihadist movements”, Molins said, adding that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had also consulted articles on fatal accidents including a report from Nice-Matin newspaper headlined: “Man drives his car into a restaurant terrace.” “Investigators have established the premeditated nature of this act,” Molins told journalists.
(15) The only significant difference observed at the 5% level was an increased frequency of matins in which the mother was Lu (a+) and had a karyotypically abnormal abortus.
(16) Matin Durrani Editor, Physics World • Aditya Chakrabortty is right that government should be looking to science and innovation to improve our prospects for growth.
(17) In an interview with the Swiss paper Le Matin, Delon said: "For years Le Pen father and daughter have fought, but they've fought somewhat alone.
(18) However, Matin's equation [S. B. Matin et al., Clin.
(19) which appears to belong to relatively richer environments (Matin & Veldkamp, 1978) and does not accumulate PHB.
(20) There were three psychologists there to meet us,” a close friend, Hamadi, told Nice Matin.