单词 | ripened |
释义 | ripenedadj. Advanced or brought to ripeness, maturity, or full development. Also as the second element in compounds, as sun-ripened, well-ripened, etc.: see at first word. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [adjective] > ripe or ripened ripedOE ripeOE mature?1440 cherry-ripec1450 coct1497 thorough ripe1534 well-ripened1559 ripened1561 mellowy1612 summer-ripea1670 augusted1675 drop-ripe1829 blood-ripe1846 enripened1855 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 1561 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Hercules Furens iii. sig. G6 No ioyful meades do there bring foorth with face so greene and fayre, Nor yet with gentyll Zephyrus wagges ripened [L. adulta] corne in th'ayre. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Iv Hir cheekes like ripened lillies steept in wine. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 116 Keepe me in patience, and with ripened time Vnfold the euill. View more context for this quotation 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. B4v The ripen'd child breaks through his mothers womb. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 496. ⁋1 [They] tempered the forward Ambition..of ripen'd Manhood with Discretion. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 112 When ripen'd fields, and azure skies, Call'd forth the Reaper's rustling noise. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 15 O thou, to whom Broad leaved fig trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 242 He thus succeeded in obtaining 450 ripened capsules full of seeds. 1916 J. W. Riley Compl. Wks. VIII. 2197 Like a ripened summer day That had fallen oversoon. 1987 J. Scott Fading, my Parmacheene Belle x. 194 I shall never forget her splayed cheekbones, her ripened lips, the braided rivulets of hair descending from the lattice on her scalp. 2006 M. I. Santiago Ecol. Oil i. 32 Hurricane season then threatened to rot the ripened corn if the family failed to harvest it on time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1561 |
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