meditate

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/

Definition of meditate

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
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verb

  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.
    “[…] 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.”
    “He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels. This created pictures of chrome and porcelain and attendant circumstances.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Meditated.

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Etymology

First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)),…

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First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically 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.”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.

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