meditate
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin meditatus, past participle of meditārī (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”), in form as if frequentative of medērī (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Greek μελετῶ (meletô, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”).
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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.
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- See also Thesaurus:ponder
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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.
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Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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meditate
- inflection of meditare:
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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.
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Verb edit
meditate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of meditar combined with te