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Matured   /mətjˈʊrd/   Listen
adjective
matured  adj.  Fully grown.
Synonyms: full-blown.


verb
Mature  v. t.  (past & past part. matured; pres. part. maturing)  To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.


Mature  v. i.  
1.
To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
2.
Hence, to become due, as a note.





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"Matured" Quotes from Famous Books



... who so often in her youth had pleaded with Susan and Frederick Douglass for both the Negro and women, now entered the argument. She had matured, but her voice had lost none of its conviction or its power to sway an audience. Disagreeing with Douglass's assertion that Negro suffrage was more urgent than woman suffrage, she pointed out that white women of the North were robbed of their children ...
— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz
... region in which he lives is a life of effeminacy, indolence, timidity, and amusement. He will never be so true a servant to the king and to Monseigneur as when he makes them see that they have in him a man matured, full of application, firm, impressed with their true interests, and fitted to aid them by the wisdom of his counsels and the vigor of his conduct. Let him be more and more little in the hands of God, but let him ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... limitless wants. We are hurried through life too rapidly for the enjoyment of the present, and the good we see in prospect is never attained. When we were boys we longed to be men, with the strength and intellect of men; and now that we are men, with matured powers of body and mind, true to our organic restlessness and discontent, we look back with longing for the feelings and emotions of our boyhood. What a glorious thing it would be if we could always be young—not boys exactly, ...
— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond
... well matured lyric power, and an increase in fervor of emotion. Bourdillon's "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," which can never be too much set to music, receives here a truly superb treatment. The interlude, which also serves for finale, is especially ravishing. "Heart Longings" is one of Mr. Smith's ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes
... mothers and fathers of Sacramento County who have their little daughters sitting side by side in the school rooms with matured Japs, with their base minds, their lascivious thoughts, multiplied by their race and strengthened by their mode ...
— Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 • Franklin Hichborn


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