▪ I. † maturate, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. mātūrātus, pa. pple. of mātūrāre: see mature v.]
Matured.
| 1556 Ann. Barber-Surg. Lond. (1890) 312 His well defycell cures..w{supc}{suph} can not be dooen w{supt}out maturate judgment, and Learninge. |
▪ II. maturate, v.
(ˈmætjʊreɪt)
Also 6 maturat.
[f. L. mātūrāt-, ppl. stem of mātūrāre to ripen, f. mātūr-us ripe: see mature a.]
1. trans. (Med.) To cause (matter, a boil, pustule, etc.) to ripen or suppurate; to ‘bring to a head’. Also absol., to cause suppuration. Now rare or Obs.
| 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Form. R iij b, Whan they [remedies] fynde mater redy to rypenesse they do maturate and to resolue, they resolue. 1547 Boorde Brev. Health cix. 41 b, Than excoriat the skyn and maturat the matter. 1665 G. Harvey Advice agst. Plague 27 The said tumours being now imperfectly maturated..are to be opened. 1694 W. Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 687/1 It is a delicate Anodyn; it lenifies or softens, and maturates. 1779 Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 80 [It] is frequently used to maturate boils. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 404 They [pustules] continued filling till they were completely maturated. 1890 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |
† 2. To mature, ripen (fruits, vegetable juices, liquors, etc.). Also fig. Obs.
| 1628 Feltham Resolves i. xix. 35 Which may strongly argue the Intentions of the Soul to be good; though unable to maturate that seed that is in it. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. i. i. 8 By powring every night warm water on the root thereof, a Tree may be maturated artificially, to bud out in the midst of Winter. 1676 Worlidge Cider ii. §3. 14 This Juice or Sap [in Fruit]..is by the continual animating heat of the Sun, maturated. 1732 Berkeley Minute Philos. (1732) 36/2 Aromatic Oils maturated by great length of time turn to Salts. 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. iii. (ed. 2) 206 It is not Boiling that maturates and preserves Malt-Liquors, but a right and due Fermentation. 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 13 Dung adds warmth to the soil, and maturates as well as it enriches the juice. |
† 3. To mature, develop, make perfect. (With object a person or personal attribute.) Obs.
| 1622 C. Fitzgeffrey Elisha 7 Yeares must maturate men to such Functions. 1662 Hopkins Serm. (1685) 104 Time, to maturate these growing hopes. 1791 Smeaton Edystone L. Contents 8/2 Dovetailing considered... The idea of Dovetailing maturated. |
† 4. a. Alchemy. To purify and digest (a metal) by maturation; to exalt by purification into. b. Metallurgy. To bring (an ore) into the metallic state.
| 1641 French Distill. vi. (1651) 176 A perfect metall, as gold, hath [not] this impurity; I mean when it is fully maturated and melted. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 58 The ripening coagulating fire of the embrionate Sulphur..exiccates and maturates the radical Mercurial moisture, and terminates it in a Metalick species. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 160 Burning it [a stone] in a Crucible, it was quickly maturated into Iron. 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 202 The metal becomes thoroughly maturated, that is, as ductile, and free from stone [etc.]..as fire itself can make it. |
† 5. (See quot.) Obs.—0
| 1623 Cockeram, Maturate, to hasten. |
† 6. intr. Of fruit: To ripen, mature. Obs.
| 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 388 Such [fruits] as will not maturate with us in England. 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 200 It will soften and maturate in a few days. |
7. Of a pustule: To ripen, suppurate.
| 1746 Brit. Mag. 101 About 50 or 60 small Pox came out, which maturated and scabbed. 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. 812/2 From the fifth to the eighth day of the eruption, the pustule maturates. |
Hence ˈmaturated ppl. a., ˈmaturating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1628 A. Leighton Sion's Plea agst. Prelacy (ed. 2) 26 Rather than they would suffer the plague soare of their oppressing pride to be burst by the maturating Cataplasmes of wholesom Laws. 1698 [R. Fergusson] View of Ecclesiastick 31 Maturated, Adult and Pregnant Wit. 1698 Phil. Trans. XX. 440, I ordered him Maturating Gargles. 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 96, I applied maturating Cataplasms. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 171 The addition of various..substances to the maturating medium. |