MATURE

mature. mature, ripe, perfect, speedy

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mature. Mature, a. ripe, full, well digested, v.t. to ripen

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Ma‐ture″ (?), a. [Compar. Maturer (?); superl. Maturest.] [[L. maturus; prob. akin to E. matin.]] 1. 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 mature of age ? Pope. 2. 2. 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. Shak. 3. 3. Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
4. 4. 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.