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" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Maturing.] [See Maturate, Mature.] To bring or hasten to maturity; to
promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
Bacon.
Ma*ture", v. i. 1. To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine
matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.