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Matured

adjective

1.

Fully ripe; at the height of bloom. Synonym: full-blown.

2.

Fully considered and perfected. Synonym: mature.

Mature

verb

(past & past part. matured; pres. part. maturing)

1.

Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation. Synonyms: grow, maturate. "The child grew fast"

2.

Develop and work out fully in one's mind.

3.

Become due for repayment.

4.

Cause to ripen or develop fully. Synonym: ripen. "Age matures a good wine"

5.

Grow old or older. Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce. "We age every day--what a depressing thought!" , "Young men senesce"

6.

Cause to ripen and discharge pus. Synonym: suppurate.

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... a peculiar tendency to this one-sided religion in this age of excitement and activity; and the young convert, whose Christian character is not matured, is peculiarly liable to fall into this error. The mind becomes absorbed with one object. The more exclusively this object is contemplated, the more its importance is magnified. It becomes, to his mind, the main thing. It is identified with his ideas of religion. He makes ...

— A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females - Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister • Harvey Newcomb

... surface, you must feed the roots. You must furnish it with that nutriment, you must supply it with those opportunities of sunshine, which will enable it to use its own energies. See how the general course of the world is governed. How slowly are those great improvements matured which our impatient nature might expect to have been effected at a single stroke. What tyrannies have been under the sun, things which we can hardly read of without longing for some direct divine interference to have taken place. Indeed, if other testimony were wanting, the cruelties permitted ...

— The Claims of Labour - an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed • Arthur Helps

... a project to be carried into execution at once, but it was slowly matured by the aid of other ecclesiastics. At last there were indications, both human and divine, that the expulsion of these miscreants could no longer be deferred. It was rumoured and believed that a general conspiracy existed among the Moors ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... Everett man until that day, was not the only person of prominence converted. After the speech he assured the Judge that he was now undergoing the greatest pleasure of his life in meeting the popular orator, the true representative man of the Great West, the matured statesman, and the able advocate of national principles. And although Mr. Douglas looked as if he had heard something of the kind before, he pressed ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... more in her studio became the feature of his day. Bedient was not shown the work on the portrait. Beth didn't altogether like the way it progressed. Sometimes, she talked as she worked (sitting low beneath the skylight, so that every change of light was in her hair, while the spring matured outside). Deep realities were often uttered thus, sentences which bore the signet of her strong understanding, for they passed through the stimulated faculties of the artist, engrossed in her particular expression. Thus the same intelligence ...

— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

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