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verb

Ripen v. t.

To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.

To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment. "When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God."

Ripen v. i. (past & past part. ripened;pres. part. ripening)

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

To approach or come to perfection.

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Etymology of 'Ripened'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ripened" Quotes from Famous Books

... merely whispered their plaint, gave over in disgust and began nosing the scattered piles of hay. The cows, urged by hunger, strayed from the blackened circle around the corrals and went to burrowing in the snow for the ripened grass whereby they must live throughout the winter. They were driven forth to the open range and left there, and the Double-Crank settled down to comparative quiet and what peace they might attain. Half the crew rolled their beds and rode elsewhere to spend the ...

— The Long Shadow • B. M. Bower

... dramas which run a hundred or a hundred and fifty nights and place ten or twenty thousand dollars in the writer's purse. His original poverty kept him poor. He could not afford to wait until the seed he had sown had grown and ripened for the sickle; so he fell into the hands of usurers, who purchased the crop while it was yet green, and made the harvest yield them profits of fifty or ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various

... companions not to eat any quantity at a time, but to take a piece the size of a nutmeg when hunger was most craving. We gathered also each day, on our return, about as many partridge berries as would fill a wine glass apiece, and these we found both refreshing and nutritive. They had ripened in the autumn, and had been buried under the snow all the winter, so that they resembled preserved fruit in flavour, and reminded me ...

— Georgie's Present • Miss Brightwell

... suns of all hours That have ripened the roots Bring forth not such flowers And beget not ...

— A Dark Month - From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... the truth of Cicero's claim, made after he had borne public care and known private grief, for the faithful, homely companionship of intellectual studies: "For other things belong neither to all times and ages nor all places; but these pursuits feed our growing years, bring charm to ripened age, adorn prosperity, offer a refuge and solace to adversity, delight us at home, do not handicap us abroad, abide with us through the watches of the night, go with us on our travels, make holiday ...

— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various

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