maturative

A remedy used in medieval medicine to promote maturation; a maturant.

Maturatives, or alterative Medicines in the Chest and Ship to be had are very many , yea more then I can call to mind at this time , wherefore to be brief , Emplastrum Diachylon cum Gummis I put for the principal , for it is for that purpose only, Parqacelsus Plaisters applyed thick spread, the place first anointed with oyl of Lillies, will do well.

Wherefore (says he) the safest way is, not always to confide in one Medicament alone, but rather to compound them, according to the Nature and Temper of the Part, and to mingle Digestives with Sarcoticks: Since that Experience testifies, that such are used with far better Success, than meer Maturatives alone.

A verb that implies the process of growth, progress or maturation

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.

Tending to promote maturation or progress.

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 .

For initiation, which is the maturative factor, one ought to seek out and take the four initiations from a master whose lineage of preceptors is intact, whose rites are unconfused, who knows how to arrange the inner and outer correlates, who is able to plant successfully the seeds of the four Buddha-bodies, and who acts in accord with the Buddha's words.

Progressing through distinct phases or stages.

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

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

Final.

At other times they are not noticed until the eruption has begun do develope itself, or even later in the maturative stage.

In order to achieve full mineralization, excess water and organic material have to be removed during the maturative stage, at the same time that mineral is transported into the tissue.

Pertaining to the process of maturation.

The lungs of such day 20 fetuses ( fig. 9) show definite maturative changes when compared to untreated day 20 animals (fig. 1).

In both species the maturative pattern and sexual condition were studied by analysing the gonad content.

Characteristic of healthy emotional maturity.

We now discuss explicitly some of the means by which maturative ideals and defensive idealisations may be transmitted, and how shared ideals and idealisations hold unrelated individuals within dyadic and triadic partnerships, groups, institutions and cultures.

At a meeting celebrating Bowlby's eightieth birthday, Lake presented a paper in which he argued for a more empirically grounded discussion of how such ideals actually function in a maturative as well as in a misguided, defensive manner.