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matterate

matterate is the obsolete form of maturate.

Meaning of maturate

Verb

maturate (third-person singular simple present maturates, present participle maturating, simple past and past participle maturated)

  1. (transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
    • A tree may be maturated artificially.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. (transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
  3. (intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.

Forms of matterate

third-person singular presentmatterates
present participlematterating
past participlematterated
pastmatterated

Questions about matterate

What is matterate the obsolete form of?
Matterate is the obsolete form of maturate.

Words near matterate in the dictionary

  1. matter-of-factish
  2. matter-of-factly
  3. matter-of-factness
  4. Mattera
  5. Matteras
  6. matterate
  7. matterated
  8. matterates
  9. matterating
  10. matterative
  11. mattered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: matterate (page history and authors); maturate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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