maturate

Latin maturatus, past participle of maturare (“to make ripe”).

maturate (third-person singular simple present maturates, present participle maturating, simple past and past participle maturated)

1. (transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
   • Fuller

     A tree may be maturated artificially.

2. (medicine, transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
3. (medicine, intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.

maturate

1. second-person plural present indicative of maturare
2. second-person plural imperative of maturare
3. feminine plural of maturato

mātūrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mātūrātus

• maturate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• maturate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette