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Matured   /mətjˈʊrd/   Listen
adjective
matured  adj.  Fully grown.
Synonyms: full-blown.



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.  
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.






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"Matured" Quotes from Famous Books



... child, for whom a mother had prayed for strength to be given her to speak the truth as it was before God, broke the cunning device of matured villainy to pieces, like a potter's vessel. The strength that her mother prayed for was given her; and the sublime and terrible simplicity,—terrible to the prisoner and his associates,—was like a revelation ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... made in procuring the desired peace, I shall charge myself to treat of it, as it concerns so deeply the licentiate, Don Pedro de Monrroy, to whom I remain a true friend; and at the pace at which the matter is being matured it must be that some little devil has been unchained, and that he is defrauding all the gains. But, nevertheless, as all this cause is for the service of our Lord, I am confident that your Lordship and all the orders ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXV, 1635-36 • Various

... them on the branches as long as possible." Now if leaves are produced in April and May they become attacked by the fungus while still young, and in August and September the ripening crop is left bare on the branches. But the leaves which were in bud in December are matured and well hardened, and have already, by living longer, done much service to the tree. He then points out that when certain districts in Ceylon suffered from a bad attack of leaf disease in July, "a large surface of young and succulent leaves were ready to receive ...
— Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore • Robert H. Elliot

... The gardens matured late, as all growth on the western prairie does. The seed which was sown on the sod so unusually late that year never would have come up but for the soaking rains. Now there were lettuce, radishes, onions and other things. One could not buy fresh green vegetables anywhere in the homestead country, ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl

... Preservation of Fruits.—To obtain the best results in canning, the fruit should not be overripe. After the ripened state has been reached fermentation and bacterial changes occur, and it is more difficult to preserve the fruit than when not so fully matured.[24] When a fruit has begun to ferment, it is hard to destroy the ferment bodies and their spores so as to prevent further ferment action. The chemical changes that occur in the last stages of ripening are similar to those which take place during the cooking process ...
— Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value • Harry Snyder


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