Noah Webster
Ripe
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.]