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meditate

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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/
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Verb

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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.
    • 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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Adjective

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meditate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, as a participle) Meditated.

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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meditate

  1. inflection of meditare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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meditate f pl

  1. feminine plural of meditato

Latin

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Participle

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meditāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of meditātus

References

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  • “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

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Verb

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meditate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of meditar combined with te
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