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Title: Ripen, ripe
Original Title: Meurir, Mure
Volume and Page: Vol. 10 (1765), p. 478
Author: Unknown
Translator: Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey]
Subject terms:
Gardening
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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Citation (MLA): "Ripen, ripe." 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.did2222.0002.136>. Trans. of "Meurir, Mure," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 10. Paris, 1765.
Citation (Chicago): "Ripen, ripe." 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.did2222.0002.136 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Meurir, Mure," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 10:478 (Paris, 1765).

To ripen: ripe [1] (Gardening). When fruit is too ripe, one says that it is overripe. Fruit is ripened by the sun, and one can advance its maturation by increasing its exposure to the sun if the trees are in boxes or pots. If the trees are standing, the fruit is stripped of its leaves as it ripens.

Notes

1. Now ‘mûrir’ and ‘mûr’.