transitive. Medicine = ripen, v. 5a. Also intransitive. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > cause suppuration [verb (transitive)] > bring to head (4) ripea1398 transitive. Medicine = ripen, v. 5a. Also intransitive. Obsolete. to bring to a head1566 to bring to a head: (a) to cause (a boil, abscess, or spot) to form a head and come to the point where likely to burst; cf. sense 19a; (b) to… concoct1584 To ripen or mature. morbific humours, boils, tumours, etc.; to maturate. Obsolete. ripen1590 Medicine. transitive. To cause to become ripe (ripe, adj. 7c). Also intransitive. Cf. ripe, v.1 3. Now rare. |
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