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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. | |
2. | Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; | |
3. | Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; | |
4. | Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration. | |
v. t. | 1. | To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; |
v. i. | 1. | To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; |
2. | Hence, to become due, as a note. |