meditate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin meditatus, past participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”), in form as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Ancient Greek μελετάω (meletáō, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]meditate (third-person singular simple present meditates, present participle meditating, simple past and past participle meditated)
- (intransitive) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
- (intransitive) To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
- (transitive) To consider; to reflect on.
- 1761, John Toland, The Life Of Iohn[sic] Milton:
- […] yet I can by no means be persuaded that he could find leisure enough to write so many copies of it in his solitudes and sufferings, in the midst of treaties, in the hurry of removals, while he meditated his escape, and was strictly observ'd by his guards.
- 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin:
- He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels. This created pictures of chrome and porcelain and attendant circumstances.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:ponder
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to contemplate
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to come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious
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Further reading
[edit]- “meditate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “meditate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]meditate
- inflection of meditare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]meditate f pl
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]meditāte
References
[edit]- “meditate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- meditate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]meditate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of meditar combined with te
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