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Webster 1913 Edition
Mature
Ma-ture′
,Adj.
[
Com
par.
Maturer
; sup
erl.
Maturest
.] [L.
maturus
; prob. akin to E. matin
.] 1.
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. Tennison.
How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage,
Unskilled in speech, nor yet
Unskilled in speech, nor yet
mature
of age? Pope.
2.
Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected;
as, a
. mature
planThis lies glowing, . . . and is almost
mature
for the violent breaking out. Shakespeare
3.
Of or pertaining to a condition of full development;
as, a man of
. mature
years4.
Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
Syn. – 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. Ma-ture′
,Verb.
I.
1.
To advance toward maturity; to become ripe;
as, wine
matures
by age; the judgment matures
by age and experience.2.
Hence, to become due, as a note.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mature
MATU'RE
,Adj.
1.
Ripe; perfected by time or natural growth; as a man of mature age. We apply it to a young man of mature age. We apply it to a young man who has arrived to the age when he is supposed to be competent to manage his own concerns; to a young woman who is fit to be married; and to elderly men who have much experience. Their prince is a man of learning and virtue,
mature in years--
Mature the virgin was, of Egypt's race.
How shall I meet or how accost the sage,
Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age.
2.
Brought to perfection; used of plants. The wheat is mature.3.
Completed; prepared; ready. The plan or scheme was mature. This lies glowing, and is mature for the violent breaking out.
4.
Ripe; come to suppuration; as,the tumor is mature.MATU'RE
,Verb.
T.
Prick an apple with a pin full of holes, not deep,and smear it with sack, to see if the virtual heat of the wine will not mature it.
1.
To advance towards perfection. Love indulged my labors past,
Matures my present, and shall bound my last.
MATU'RE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
mature
mature
See also: mâture
English
Adjective
mature (comparative maturer or more mature, superlative maturest or most mature)
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- She is quite mature for her age.
- Profound; careful.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
- (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
Antonyms
- (grown up): childish, immature
- (profound): superficial
Translations
fully developed
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profound; careful
Verb
mature (third-person singular simple present matures, present participle maturing, simple past and past participle matured)
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
- (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due
Derived terms
- mature up
Translations
to become mature; to ripen
to gain experience or wisdom with age
to reach the date when payment is due
Related terms
French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mûr.
Adjective
mature m, f (plural matures)
- (of a person) mature
Latin
Adjective
mātūre
- vocative masculine singular of mātūrus
References
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mature in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mature”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.