单词 | maturate |
释义 | † maturateadj. Obsolete. rare. 1. Medicine. Of a boil or abscess: that has come to a head. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 24 Þe aposteme maturate [?c1425 Paris imatured, i. made rype]. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 125 (MED) How pustules are brusten after þai ar maturate, i. ripe. 2. Mature; based on experience. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > [adjective] mucha1154 of (formerly also at, to) agec1300 perfect agec1384 full-growna1393 ripea1393 greatc1515 adult1531 maturate1556 mellowed1575 mellow1592 full-aged1596 mature1609 timed1611 grown-upa1640 adulted1645 grown1645 upgrown1667 matured1805 coming of age1858 1556 in S. Young Ann. Barber-surgeons London (1890) 312 His well defycell cures..wch can not be dooen wtout maturate judgment, and Learninge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2018). maturatev. 1. a. transitive. To cause (a boil, abscess, etc.) to suppurate or come to a head. Also intransitive. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > promote or mature suppuration maturea1400 maturate?1541 digest1551 ?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Riijv Whan they [sc. remedies] fynde mater redy to rypenesse they do maturate, and to resolue, they resolue. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xlixv Than excoryate the skyn and maturate the matter. 1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 42v It doeth digest and maturate tumours. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 274 Those plasters which resolue or maturat any impostumed place. 1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague 27 The said tumours being now imperfectly maturated..are to be opened. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. iv. 887/1 It is a delicate Anodyn; it lenifies or softens, and maturates. 1779 Gentleman's Mag. 49 80 [It] is frequently used to maturate boils. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 404 They [sc. pustules] continued filling till they were completely maturated. 1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Maturate, to cause to ripen; to bring to ripeness; to perfect suppuration. b. intransitive. Of a boil, abscess, etc.: to ripen, suppurate. Cf. mature v. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > suppurate [verb (intransitive)] whealc1000 rank?a1300 ranklec1330 festera1400 putrefya1400 quittera1400 suppure?a1425 to come to a head1566 undercot1591 suppurate1615 youster1691 digest1722 maturate1726 1726 Philos. Trans. 1725 (Royal Soc.) 33 394 Those pustules arose, maturated, and scabb'd off. 1746 Brit. Mag. 101 About 50 or 60 small Pox came out, which maturated and scabbed. 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. ii. 812/2 From the fifth to the eighth day of the eruption, the pustule maturates. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel iv. 297 If you got a wound in that country it never healed but festered white and maturated. 2. a. transitive. To cause to mature; to develop, make perfect (a person, personal quality, idea, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > mature > specifically a person or personal attribute maturate1622 1622 C. Fitzgeffry Elisha 7 Yeares must maturate men to such Functions. 1662 Bp. E. Hopkins Serm. (1685) 104 Time, to maturate these growing hopes. 1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xl. 228 There was a particular attachment between them, which wanted only to be maturated by some more years of courtship to end in the tenderest connection. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse Contents 8/2 Dovetailing considered... The idea of Dovetailing maturated. 1964 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 35 7 Master teachers seem to have had at least two qualities in common: a capacity to motivate the student and an ability to maturate him. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > ripen [verb (transitive)] > ripen ripea1398 ripenc1450 concoct1555 maturate1628 to bring on1629 mature1701 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > mature perfecta1398 ripea1398 season1545 ripen?1560 digest1607 mature1626 maturate1628 enripena1631 age1675 august1855 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > be a fruit-bearing plant [verb (intransitive)] > mature maturate1628 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xix. sig. L7v Which may strongly argue the Intentions of the Soule to bee good; though vnable to maturate that seed that is in it. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. 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 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 15 This Juice or Sap [in Fruit]..is by the continual animating heat of the Sun, maturated. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xiv. 53 Aromatic Oils maturated by great length of time turn to Salts. 1738 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer III. xi. 43 It is not boiling that maturates and preserves Malt-Liquors, but a right, and due Fermentation. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica i. ii. 13 Dung adds a warmth to the soil, and maturates, as well as it enriches the juice. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > age or be defined by cyclical growth periods [verb (intransitive)] > ripen ripeOE concoct1555 ripen1573 mature1626 maturate1665 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 409 Such [fruits] as will not maturate with us in England. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 200 It will soften and maturate in a few days. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > further [verb (transitive)] furtherc888 to bring onc1230 advancea1250 speeda1300 nourishc1300 avaunt1393 promotec1433 pasture?a1439 advantage?1459 promove1475 preferc1503 conduce1518 to set forth1528 to set forward(s)1530 to take forth1530 fillip1551 help1559 farther1570 foster1571 shoulder1577 to put forward1579 seconda1586 foment1596 hearten1598 to put on1604 fomentate1613 succeed1613 expeditea1618 producea1618 maturate1623 cultivate1641 encourage1677 push1693 forward1780 progress1780 admove1839 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Maturate, to hasten. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [verb (transitive)] > transmutation multiplya1393 tinct1599 transmute1610 tinge1650 maturate1651 maturify1651 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > refine fine1340 concoct1555 refine1579 maturate1651 1651 J. French Art Distillation vi. 176 A perfect metall, as gold, hath [not] this impurity; I mean when it is fully maturated and melted. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 58 The ripening coagulating fire of the embrionate Sulphur..exiccates and maturates the radical Mercurial moisture, and terminates it in a Metalick species. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 160 Burning it [sc. a stone] in a Crucible, it was quickly maturated into Iron. 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 202 The metal becomes thoroughly maturated, that is, as ductile, and free from stone [etc.]..as fire itself can make it. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > mature or matured digesta1398 ripea1398 fledge1398 concoct1534 seasoned1545 well-seasoned1545 ripened1561 seeded1567 fledged1579 thorough-seasoned1605 matured1626 well-matured1626 advanced1646 concocted1647 digested1657 well-digested1657 predigested1663 maturated1698 drop-ripe1724 well-developed1769 mellowed1798 fully-fledged1906 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 31 Maturated, Adult and Pregnant Wit. ˈmaturating adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [adjective] > promoting suppuration ripinga1398 maturativea1400 ruptorya1400 suppurative?a1425 ruptic?1541 suppurating1601 maturating1628 diapyetical1657 suppurant1715 pepastic1833 maturant1857 1628 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. (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 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 440 I ordered him Maturating Gargles. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxx. 102 I applied maturating Cataplasms. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 171 The addition of various..substances to the maturating medium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425v.?1541 |
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