Dictionary entry

Ripen (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rip″en, v. t. 1. To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.

2. To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.

When faith and love, which parted from thee never,

Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. Milton.