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Maturative
Definitions
- 1 Tending to promote maturation or progress.
"So is it observed, that they which dwell between the tropicks and the equator have their second summer hotter and more maturative of fruits than the former ."
- 2 Progressing through distinct phases or stages.
"The maturative process is often accompanied by an exceedingly tender state of the surface."
- 3 Final.
"At other times they are not noticed until the eruption has begun do develope itself, or even later in the maturative stage."
- 4 Pertaining to the process of maturation.
"The lungs of such day 20 fetuses ( fig. 9) show definite maturative changes when compared to untreated day 20 animals (fig. 1)."
- 5 Characteristic of healthy emotional maturity.
"We now discuss explicitly some of the means by which maturative ideals and defensive idealisations may be transmitted, and how shared ideals and idealisations hold unrelated individuals within dyadic and triadic partnerships, groups, institutions and cultures."
- 1 A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant. historical
"Maturatives, or alterative Medicines in the Chest and Ship to be had are very many , yea more then I can call to mind at this time , wherefore to be brief , Emplastrum Diachylon cum Gummis I put for the principal , for it is for that purpose only, Parqacelsus Plaisters applyed thick spread, the place first anointed with oyl of Lillies, will do well."
- 2 A verb that implies the process of growth, progress or maturation rare
"What is characteristic of the maturatives as a kind of special case of the conformatives is the factor of growth, of alteration in time, but also something more, as we shall presently see."
Etymology
From Middle English maturatif, from Middle French maturatif, from Medieval Latin mātūrātīvus. By surface analysis, mature + -ative or maturate + -ive.
From Middle English maturatif, from Middle French maturatif, from Medieval Latin mātūrātīvus. By surface analysis, mature + -ative or maturate + -ive.
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