RIPE, adjective

1. Brought to perfection in growth or to the best state; mature; fit for use; as ripe fruit; ripe corn.

2. Advanced to perfection; matured; as ripe judgment, or ripe in judgment.

3. Finished; consummate; as a ripe scholar.

4. Brought to the point of taking effect; matured; ready; prepared; as things just ripe for war.

5. Fully qualified by improvement; prepared; as a student ripe for the university; a saint ripe for heaven.

6. Resembling the ripeness of fruit; as a ripe lip.

7. Complete; proper for use.

When time is ripe

8. Maturated; suppurated; as an abscess or tumor.

RIPE, verb intransitive To ripen; to grow ripe; to be matured. [Not used. See Ripen.]

RIPE, verb transitive To mature; to ripen. [Not used.]