maturate
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmætjʊɹeɪt/, /ˈmæt͡ʃəɹeɪt/
Verb
maturate (third-person singular simple present maturates, present participle maturating, simple past and past participle maturated)
- (transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- A tree may be maturated artificially.
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- (medicine, transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
- (medicine, intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.
Synonyms
Italian
Verb
maturate
- inflection of maturare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
References
- “maturate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- maturate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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