Maturest

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mature \Ma*ture"\, a. [Compar. {Maturer}; superl. {Maturest}.]
     [L. maturus; prob. akin to E. matin.]
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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.
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              Now is love mature in ear.            --Tennison.
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              How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage,
              Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age? --Pope.
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     2. Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready
        for action; made ready for destined application or use;
        perfected; as, a mature plan.
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              This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for
              the violent breaking out.             --Shak.
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     3. Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a
        man of mature years.
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     4. Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
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     Syn: Ripe; perfect; completed; prepared; digested; ready.
  
     Usage: {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.
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