Sekirov Dictionary

maturative

adjective 5
noun 2
forms 3

adjective5

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Progressing through distinct phases or stages.
- The maturative process is often accompanied by an exceedingly tender state of the surface. — 1851
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Final.
- At other times they are not noticed until the eruption has begun do develope itself, or even later in the maturative stage. — 1851
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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). — 1979
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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 . — 1852
Characteristic of healthy emotional maturity.

noun2

(historical) A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant.
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(rare) A verb that implies the process of growth, progress or maturation
- 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. — 1971

forms

maturatives · more maturative · most maturative

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