Ripe
a.
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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.
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Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
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Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.
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Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
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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.
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Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
Those happy smilets,
That played on her ripe lip.
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Intoxicated. [Obs.]