meditate

From Latin meditatus, past participle of meditari (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”), in form as if frequentative of mederi (“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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meditate (third-person singular simple present meditates, present participle meditating, simple past and past participle meditated)

1. (intransitive) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
2. (intransitive) To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
3. (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.

• See also Thesaurus:ponder

• meditative
• meditation
• meditator

• meditate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• meditate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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meditate

1. second-person plural present indicative of meditare
2. second-person plural imperative of meditare
3. feminine plural of meditato

meditāte

1. vocative masculine singular of meditātus

• 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