maturative (plural maturatives)
(medicine) A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
maturative (comparative more maturative, superlative most maturative)
Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
Source: Wiktionary
Mat"u*ra*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. maturatif.]
Definition: Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
Mat"u*ra*tive, n. (Med.)
Definition: A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
