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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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"Mature" Quotes from Famous Books

... understood anything of what I had got by heart, I reply—"Never mind, I understand it all now, and believe that no one ever yet got Lilly's Latin Grammar by heart when young, who repented of the feat at a mature age". ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... have the pleasures of the young and mature become so definitely separated as in the modern city. The public dance halls filled with frivolous and irresponsible young people in a feverish search for pleasure, are but a sorry substitute for ...

— The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets • Jane Addams

... and warm, and bright and mellow, and all the contradictions that make October the month of the year's mature perfection; that middle age of the seasons, when the blossoms of folly are past, and the fruits of the will are ripened, and the chill of bare winter ...

— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton

... the six novels which represent most truly the striving, persistent idealism of the mature Wells. In these books he has come to the mastery of his own technique—so far as a man may ever master it. He admits that there remain inexpressible visions, he is apt at times to be overtaken by his own mannerisms (a fault that in no way affects ...

— H. G. Wells • J. D. Beresford

... under the forecastle, he signed with his hand that all his people should remain without, and they did so with the greatest haste and respect in the world, and all seated themselves on the deck, except two men of mature age whom I took to be his counsellors and governors, and who came and seated themselves at his feet: and of the viands which I placed before him he took of each one as much as may be taken for a salutation, and then he sent the rest to his people and ...

— Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young

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