Word Finder - matured

definition

To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).

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• develop
• grow
• progress
• ripen

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(of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.

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• ripen
• ripen up

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To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion.

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To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.

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• ripen

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(of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.

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• age
• develop
• grow up

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To make (someone) mature.

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To reach the date when payment is due.

He felt that he had grown up and matured very much.

More than two thousand years before Europe or England had conceived the idea of applying modern industry to the manufacture of cotton, India had matured a system of hand-spinning, weaving and dyeing which during that vast period received no recorded improvement.

The constitution of the commonwealth had slowly matured itself through a series of revolutions, which confirmed and defined a type of singular stability.

Ricardo's works, in fact, do not explain a theoretical system, but contain the matured reflections, more or less closely reasoned, of a man of great mental power looking out on the world as it appeared to a business man experienced in affairs.

Strutt, made him known over Europe; and his powers rapidly matured until, at the death of Clerk Maxwell, he stood at the head of British physicists, Sir George Stokes and Lord Kelvin alone excepted.

The Scriptures, however, are treated by Origen on the basis of a matured theory of inspiration in such a way that all their facts appear as the vehicles of ideas, and have their highest value only in this aspect.

But all was to be done by discussion, and matured change resulting from discussion.

Did men get that way as they matured?

He never changed, though he developed and perfected, the manner which he had adopted in Padua; his colouring, at first rather neutral and undecided, strengthened and matured.

The wines are for the most part rough and strong, though some are very good, especially when matured.

Such is Aristotle's practical philosophy, contained in his matured Nicomachean Ethics, and his unfinished Politics.

The mosque of sultan Hasan, below the citadel, those of Muayyad and Kalaun, with the Barkukiya and the mosque of Barkuk in the cemetery of Kait Bey, are instances of the second and more matured style of the period.

He at once drew up the orders for a general retreat beyond the Tagliamento, and his plans were already matured for the longer retreat, across the Piave, which he foresaw would probably be necessary.

The whole enterprise fell through, owing partly to the death of Koniecpolski before it was matured, partly to the hastiness with which the king published his intentions, and partly to the careful avoidance by the Porte of the slightest occasion of a rupture.

Thus the geographical isolation of England, and the comparatively late adoption by the English of matured Italian and German influences, give peculiar complexity to the phenomena of Reformation and Renaissance simultaneously developed on our island.

In this case the wine gradually matured and acquired the properties which were associated with age.

Gem-engraving and jewelry follow similar lines; pottery-painting for the most part remains geometrical throughout, with crude survivals of Mycenaean curvilinear forms. Those Aegean influences, however, which had been predominant in the later Bronze Age, and had never wholly ceased, revived, as Hellenism matured and spread, and slowly repelled the mixed Phoenician orientalism.

Thomas Dickson of Edinburgh long ago observed that the most healthy and productive crop was to be obtained by planting unripe tubers, and proposed this as a preventive of the disease called the "curl," which sometimes attacks the young stems, causing them and also the leaves to become crumpled, and few or no tubers to be produced; in this connexion it is interesting to note that Scottish and Irish seed potatoes give a larger yield than English, probably on account of their being less matured.

Cavaignac failed perhaps to appreciate the political exigencies of the moment; as a soldier he would not strike his blow until his plans were matured and his forces sufficiently prepared.

Like most men of great originality, Hamilton generally matured his ideas before putting pen to paper.

We see in the Fragmens very distinctly the fusion of the different philosophical influences by which his opinions were finally matured.

It voted some supplies on the understanding that, when the Th king had matured his plans for carrying on the war, French it should come together in the autumn to vote the alliance.

The ripe fruit or grain, sometimes called the "berry," the matured state of the ovary and its contents, is oblong or ovoid, with a longitudinal furrow on one side.

It is impossible to detect the first infection or to cleanse the seed; the only remedy is to procure seed from a smut-free source, and to prevent further spread of the disease by gathering all smutted heads before the spores have matured or dispersed.

He entered upon his work with a firm determination to carry out those reforms which he had originally purposed, and to set up in all its integrity that form of church polity which he had carefully matured during his residence at Strassburg.

After thus establishing peace and consolidating his power, Brian returned to his residence Cenn Corad and matured his plan of obtaining the high-kingship for himself.

But there is no reason to suppose that the political ideas of Montfort had matured before the death of Grosseteste; nor did Grosseteste busy himself overmuch with secular politics, except in so far as they touched the interest of the Church.

Scarcely any great mind, it has been said with justice, ever matured so slowly.

The new make spirit had been matured in an ex-bourbon cask.

The fifth bottle was another proprietary bottling, cask strength Macallan, matured in a first refill sherry cask.

After double distillation, the spirit was matured in new Limousin oak barrels for approximately one year.

The worktop is made from well matured solid beech hardwood, which has a beautiful grain.

The wine was matured in a mixture of French and American oak hogsheads for 14 months in the underground cellars at Magill.

Based on the author's personal diary, the book has a startling immediacy which is complemented by reflections matured over three decades.

The wine was matured on its yeast lees in bottle for at least 30 months in underground cellars.

Peated to 55 ppm phenols at the end of malting, this whiskey had been matured for ' many years ' in hand-picked casks.

Hawes Matured Wensleydale takes on the appearance of a truly traditionally ripened cheese.

Whiskey matured in former fresh oak sherry casks will usually be a darker color than that which has been matured in refilled whiskey casks.

These studies marked stages of her development, and as her mind matured she abandoned the idea of a convent which for a year or two she had entertained, and added to the enthusiasm for a republic which she had imbibed from her earlier studies not a little of the cynicism and the daring which the later authors inspired.

The science of geography, passed on from antiquity by Ptolemy, re-established by Varenius and Newton, and systematized by Kant, included within itself definite aspects of all those terrestrial phenomena which are now treated exhaustively under the heads of geology, meteorology, oceanography and anthropology; and the inclusion of the requisite portions of the perfected results of these sciences in geography is simply the gathering in of fruit matured from the seed scattered by geography itself.

Too often the primitive "heresy of the Phrygians" has been studied in the light of the matured system of Tertullian.

The Cossack's report, confirmed by horse patrols who were sent out, was the final proof that events had matured.

The longer the slaked lime is matured in the tank the better the lime putty.

We have well matured financial and securities market and time-tested judicial systems.

After the middle school graduation, the mothers reflected how their children had evolved and matured.

However, once your baby has matured a little, you'll find that umbrella strollers are easy to handle and use.

This is not true, as proven after World War I when the bonds matured.

The government did not have enough money to pay back those who purchased bonds, so the Treasury had to issue short-term bonds to cover the costs of paying the matured bonds.

Once matured, the fleshy part of the coconut produces oil and is more of a cousin to the nut.

The coconut palm is grown from seeds, usually matured nuts that are placed approximately one-half of their thickness into soil.