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adjective

Mature adj. (compar. maturer; superl. maturest)

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. "Now is love mature in ear." "How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age?"

Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan. "This lies glowing,... and is almost mature for the violent breaking out."

Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.

Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.

Synonyms: Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready. Mature, Ripe. Both words describe fullness of growth. Mature brings to view the progressiveness of the process; ripe indicates the result. We speak of a thing as mature when thinking of the successive stayes through which it has passed; as ripe, when our attention is directed merely to its state. A mature judgment; mature consideration; ripe fruit; a ripe scholar.

verb

Mature v. t. (past & past part. matured; pres. part. maturing) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.

Mature v. i.

To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

Hence, to become due, as a note.

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Etymology of 'Mature'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

... been when she left Mayberry, almost as pale and thin as when I first met her in the back room of Mrs. Briggs' lodging house. And there was another change, a subtle, undefinable change in her manner and appearance that puzzled me. Then I realized what it was; she had grown older, more mature. In Mayberry she had been an extraordinarily pretty girl. Now she was a beautiful woman. These last weeks had worked the change. And I began to understand what she had undergone during ...

— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... he grasped it, he saw with that mature comprehension which was now his, that, awful as it was, that total of twenty pounds odd represented, perfectly, the price of peace. It was open to him to repudiate his wife's debts, in which case ...

— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair

... do you flatter yourself that it is a trifling thing to do wrong, "only this once?" If so, stop and consider, how often not only the young but those of mature years yield to this deceptive and alluring thought and take the first steps in a career of sin, when, could they but see the end of the path which they are so thoughtlessly entering, they would shudder with horror. They do not realize that sin once indulged in hardens the ...

— Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys • Various

... had devised one. He was then, according to our reckoning, a mature man of about seven-and-thirty; he had visited the prisons, and convinced himself that there was neither political economy nor humanity in this method of preserving the impecunious class. Why not take them to America? Why not found a new colony there ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

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