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adjective

Ripe adj. (compar. riper; superl. ripest)

Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain. "So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap."

Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.

Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate. "Ripe courage." "He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one."

Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; said of sores, tumors, etc.

Ready for action or effect; prepared. "While things were just ripe for a war." "I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies."

Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. "Those happy smilets, That played on her ripe lip."

Intoxicated. (Obs.) "Reeling ripe."

Synonyms: Mature; complete; finished. See Mature.

noun

Ripe n. The bank of a river. (Obs.)

verb

Ripe v. t. To mature; to ripen. (Obs.)

Ripe v. i. To ripen; to grow ripe. (Obs.)

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"Ripe" Quotes from Famous Books

... being here to do with it? You took every care of her. She was old—ripe—ready to go. The wonder is that she has lived so long, with such a frail hold ...

— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond

... his tomahawk in his belt and his bow in his hand went out to explore the country around in order to determine what course was best to pursue. Taking a south-east direction, the face of the country was level and very fertile, producing wild fruits and nuts in abundance, which were now ripe, and with which the trees ...

— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle

... were, indeed, short-lived; for the times were not yet ripe for the complete triumph of democratic ideas. But a great gain for freedom was made. The reestablished monarchies never dared to make themselves as despotic as those which the Revolution ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

... miraculously. Their advent is prepared. They are as much caused as the fall of a ripe apple from the tree, or the regular bursting of the buds in spring. The authors of the Revolution were in their graves. Its leaders, or its instruments, appeared upon the scene in '89. After life's fitful fever Voltaire was sleeping well. Rousseau's tortured heart ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote

... each step of advance taken has been fruitful of all good and productive of no evil. Emancipation of the colored race in Missouri has been achieved in a most thorough manner, substantially achieved even before the war; and to-day the community is ripe for the declaration that all are created equal, and that there is no reason to exclude from any right, civil or political, on the ground of race or color. I feel proud to say likewise that Missouri has gone further, and wiped from her statute-book large portions of that unjust ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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