Măth'ū-rĭn, n.

n. (Rom. Cath. Hist.) One of a religious sect which arose at the end of the twelfth century, the members of which devoted their labor, and a third of their revenue, to the liberation of Christian captives from Mohammedan masters; — so called from St. Mathurin, the patron saint of a church in Paris. Eadie.