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adjective

Premature adj.

Mature or ripe before the proper time; as, the premature fruits of a hotbed.

Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report.

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Etymology of 'Premature'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... at the adjacent joint, especially at the elbow, may result from imperfect reduction, or from exuberant callus. Arrest of growth of the bone in length is a rare sequel, and when it occurs, it is due, not to premature union of the epiphysis with the shaft, but to diminished action at the ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... clover, or the waste of field peas. These experiments were always unsatisfactory. So Howard wisely mixed his vegetation, first withering and drying green materials by spreading them thinly in the sun to prevent their premature decomposition, and then taking great care to preserve a uniform mixture of vegetation types when charging his compost pits. This strategy can be duplicated by the home gardener. Howard was surprised to discover that he could compost all the crop waste he had available with only ...

— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... what I write you, Athalie. I am not trying to escape any responsibility excepting that of premature publicity. Whatever else has happened ...

— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... the Dona Luisa; and thus to the joys of the first days of her married life succeeded the sorrows of a premature widowhood. ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... On the way, Captain Roy took note of the condition of Krakatoa, which at that time was quietly working up its subterranean forces with a view to the final catastrophe; opening a safety-valve now and then to prevent, as it were, premature explosion. ...

— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne

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