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unˈripe, a.
[OE. unrípe (f. un- un-1 7 + rípe ripe a.), = WFris. on-, ûnryp, NFris. ünrip(p, MDu. (Du.) onrijp, OHG. unrîfi (MHG. unrîf, G. unreif).]
†1. Of death: Untimely, premature. Obs.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 149 Immatura [mors], unripe deað. 1548Udall Erasmus Par. Luke vii. 69 b, The unripe death of the young strieplyng. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. vi, Dorilaus, whose unripe death doth yet..draw teares from vertuous eyes. 1633P. Fletcher (title), Elisa, or An Elegie upon the Unripe Decease of Sr Antonie Irby.
2. Immature; not arrived at full development.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxviii. 147, I ran in barnhede, þat is vnrype til perfeccioun. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke 141 b, That same stemme of the Judaicall figtree brought foorth..vnsauourie, & vnripe people. 1620Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1907) iii. 582 The teachinge of a Stranger..vnripe of yeres. a1639Waller Battle Summer-Isl. i. 59 So in this northern tract our hoarser throats Utter unripe and ill-constrained notes. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. ii. iii. 612 Yet Justice slumbers I' the prosecution of his unripe fate. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 254 Resolv'd his unripe Vengeance to defer, The Royal Spy..Sought not the Garden. 1704J. Trapp Abra-Mulé i. i. 33 Thy tender Innocence, and unripe Beauty. 1819Shelley Peter Bell 3rd Prol. 15 The First Peter—he who was Like the shadow in the glass Of the second, yet unripe. 1847Emerson Each & All 38 Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat. 1891Spectator 28 Feb., To try unripe and ill-conceived schemes for improving their condition.
b. Of years or age.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 120 The election beyng vnfree, and the yeres vnripe, eche of them almost of necessitie must hate the other. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. ii. 9, I whose vnryper yeares are yet vnfit For thing of weight. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. Ep. Ded., These raw Essayes of my very unripe yeares. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. iv. v. 235 The old Experienced courtiers kneel; by which..those of unriper age [etc.]. 1800Wordsw. Brothers 297 The boy..of unripe years, a stripling only. 1814Cary Dante, Parad. xvii. 77 His unripe age Yet holds him from observance.
3. Of fruit, etc.: Not matured by growth.
a1250Owl & Night. 320 Mi stefne is bold..& þin is iliche one pype Of one smale weode vnripe. 1382Wyclif Rev. vi. 13 As a fijge tree sendith his vnripe fyges. 1535Coverdale Wisd. x. 7 The vnripe and vntymely frutes that growe vpon the trees. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 67 While they be soure and vnripe, they are white. 1614R. Tailor Hog hath lost Pearl ii, Unripe fruit will ask more shaking before they fall than those that are. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. i. 247 Unripe, they are sour, and rather astringent. 1798Coleridge Fears in Solitude 9 Fresh and delicate As vernal corn-field, or the unripe flax. 1849R. T. Claridge Cold Water Cure 112 To eat plentifully of common unripe plums. 1882Garden 4 Feb. 72/3 Unripe wood is liable to get injured by frosts.
transf.a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 93 Rude [roset] is made of vnripe oile and of rosez. 1693Sir T. Blount Nat. Hist. 250 Erastus affirms..that..there hath been Unripe and Unconcocted Silver found in Mines. 1751Warburton Pope's Wks. IV. 128 note, The image is taken from half-formed unripe lightning, which streams along the sky. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 279 No. 10. Red and yellow, unripe pouzzolana. Ibid., Unripe black pumice. 1884J. Phin Dict. Apiculture 73 Unripe Honey.—Honey from which the water has not been sufficiently evaporated. |