Maturative

Quick meaning: Maturative is a noun meaning (medicine, historical) A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant.

Meaning

(medicine, historical) A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics, rare) A verb that implies the process of growth, progress or maturation
2. Tending to promote maturation or progress.
3. (medicine) Progressing through distinct phases or stages.
4. (medicine, of the stage of a maturative disease or process) Final.
5. Pertaining to the process of maturation.
6. Characteristic of healthy emotional maturity.

Example Sentences

The maturative process is often accompanied by an exceedingly tender state of the surface.

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 .

The maturative subtype can be identified only retrospectively after maturation to ganglioneuroma, and represents probably less than 5% of all peripheral neuroblastic tumors.

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.

Word Forms

• maturatives

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include maturer, maltin, mortmal, mummy, mundificant, menagogue.

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