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Home Dictionary Name: ripeRipeness
The state or quality of being ripe maturity completeness perfection as the ripeness of grain ripeness of manhood ripeness of judgment...
ripe
ripe 1 : of, relating to, or being a claim for relief that is ready for judicial resolution because the injury is certain to occur and is not merely hypothetical or speculative compare moot 2 : ready and appropriate for disclosure because reasonably determined to be valid and not required to be kept secret for business reasons used of corporate information ripe·ness n ...
ripeness doctrine
ripeness doctrine : a doctrine prohibiting federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over a case until an actual controversy is presented involving a threat of injury that is real and immediate ...
Precocious
Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time early or prematurely ripe or developed as precocious trees...
Rareripe
Early ripe ripe before others or before the usual season...
controversy
controversy pl: -sies 1 : a state of dispute or disagreement [suits at common law, where the value in shall exceed twenty dollars "U.S. Constitution amend. VII"] 2 : a civil action involving a real and immediate dispute between parties with adverse interests NOTE: Article III of the U.S. Constitution gives the judiciary the power to decide cases and controversies. Article III's limitation of the judicial power to cases or controversies requires that an action brought in the federal court involve parties with standing to sue and questions that are ripe and not moot. con·tro·ver·sial [kÄ n-trə-vər-shəl, -vər-sē-əl] adj ...
moot
moot : to make moot [statute of limitations would the effort "S. R. Sontag"] adj [(of a trial or hearing) hypothetical, staged for practice, from moot hypothetical case for law students, argument, deliberative assembly, from Old English mōt assembly, meeting] : deprived of practical significance : made abstract or purely academic [the case became when the defendant paid the sum at issue] see also mootness doctrine compare justiciable, ripe moot·ness [müt-nəs] n ...
Benting time
The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents before peas are ripe...
blackberry lily
garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry...
Daniel
A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth hence a sagacious and upright judge...
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