| Title: | Ripen |
| Original Title: | Aouter |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 521 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Subject terms: |
Gardening
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.750 |
| Citation (MLA): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Ripen." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.750>. Trans. of "Aouter," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Ripen." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.750 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Aouter," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:521 (Paris, 1751). |
To ripen; to lignify, a Gardening term applied to plants which have passed the month of August. One says that fruit has been mellowed by the August sun when it has the colour of its maturation: it means the same as ‘ripe’. This term is also used with reference to tree branches which have sprouted during the year, become robust, and stopped growing. One says a ripe gourd, cucumber, pumpkin, or melon.