Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
2. (superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
3. (superl.) of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
4. (superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
5. (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
6. (v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
7. (v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.
Greek
5046. teleios -- having reached its end, ie complete, by ext. ... ... by ext. perfect NASB Word Usage complete (2),
mature (4), more perfect (1),
perfect (12). complete, perfect,
mature. From telos; complete
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... Word Origin from a derivation of pletho (to be full) Definition full NASB Word Usage
abounding (1), covered (1), filled (1), full (12), mature (1). full. ...
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187. akmazo -- to be at the prime
... be fully ripe. From the same as akmen; to make a point, ie (figuratively) mature --
be fully ripe. see GREEK akmen. (ekmasan) -- 1 Occurrence. 186, 187. ...
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2244. helikia -- maturity, ie age
... Word Origin from helix (of the same age, mature) Definition maturity, ie age NASB
Word Usage age (2), life (2), life's span (1), stature (3). age, stature. ...
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2338. thelus -- female
... 2338 (from , "the breast") -- properly, a woman with nursing breasts ("one who gives
suck"); (figuratively) a mature female who exhibit "," glorifying God by ...
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1253. diakrisis -- the act of judgment
... (Note the intensifying force of the prefix, .) See also 1252 (). : Heb 5:14: "But
solid food relates to mature people (5046 ), of those having the sense ...
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4243. presbeuo -- to be the elder, to take precedence
... 4243 (a verb derived from , "an older, venerated person") -- properly, to be
elderly or mature, "to be , to take and hence act as " (). ...
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3583. xeraino -- to dry up, waste away
... dry up, wither away. From xeros; to desiccate; by implication, to shrivel, to mature --
dry up, pine away, be ripe, wither (away). see GREEK xeros. ...
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Library
He who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture no ...
... Book I. Chapter 39."He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture
No Longer. 43. And thus a man who is resting upon ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 39 he who is mature.htm
Knowledge and Obedience.
... The word rendered "knowledge" means "mature knowledge," and is one of the
characteristic words of these four Epistles written from Rome. ...
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Bible Study for Boys
... It was a mistake due to a purely mature point of view and a failure to know that
the boy mind needed different treatment from that of the adult. ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/ix bible study for boys.htm
Method and Organization
... Senior forms of organization were imitated, adult forms of worship and service
diminutized, and juvenile copies of mature experience encouraged. ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/vii method and organization.htm
The Eternity of Heaven's Happiness.
... Our growth to mature age has completely changed us in their regard. Where is the
man that could now spend the day with the playthings of his childhood? ...
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His Public Life.
... his years, Christ combined, with the freshness, energy, and originating power of
youth, that wisdom, moderation, and experience, which belong only to mature age ...
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Concerning Paradise.
... Now this is a good thing for those who are mature, but an evil thing for the immature
and those whose appetites are too strong [1778] , being like solid food ...
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These Things, Since they are Asserted Upon the Warrant of the ...
... Every birth, I suppose, depends upon three conditions. There must be a woman of
mature age, she must have intercourse with a man, her womb must not be barren. ...
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Perfect in Parts, Imperfect in Degrees.
... 14), where he addresses believers as "young men" and as "fathers," evidently with
reference to their age, for he places the latter as more mature in spiritual ...
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In this Passage all Room for Doubt is Removed. In the Former ...
... ones, to all, even to those who now do not believe, that is, the devil and his angels;
and, though now you hold the mere opinion, not the mature judgment, of ...
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Thesaurus
Mature (11 Occurrences)... 2. (superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action;
made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a
mature plan.
.../m/mature.htm - 10kRipe (29 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; --
said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain. ... 10. (vt) To mature; to ripen. ...
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Ripen (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain,
fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun. ...
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Full-grown (4 Occurrences)
Full-grown. Fullgrown, Full-grown. Fullness . Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.)
Having reached the limits of growth; mature. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Manhood (8 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:13 till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge
of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in ...
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Season (101 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to
inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate. ...
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Believers (50 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 2:6 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom;
a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of ...
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Thoughts (151 Occurrences)
... child. (BBE). 1 Corinthians 14:20 Brothers, don't be children in thoughts,
yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. (WEB). ...
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Youthful (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not yet mature or aged; young. 2. (a.)
Also used figuratively. 3. (a.) of or pertaining to the ...
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Oneness (2 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:13 till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge
of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in ...
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Resources
What is spiritual maturity? How can I become more spiritually mature? | GotQuestions.orgIs sinless perfection possible in this life? | GotQuestions.orgWhat does it mean to grow in grace? | GotQuestions.orgMature: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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