Definition of "maturate"

maturate

/ˈmætjʊɹeɪt/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  A tree may be maturated artificially.The spelling has been modernized.
  1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837
2. (medicine, transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
3. (medicine, intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration.