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verb

Meditate v. t.

To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon; to study. "Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things."

To purpose; to intend; to design; to plan by revolving in the mind; as, to meditate a war. "I meditate to pass the remainder of life in a state of undisturbed repose."

Synonyms: To consider; ponder; weigh; revolve; study. To Meditate, Contemplate, Intend. We meditate a design when we are looking out or waiting for the means of its accomplishment; we contemplate it when the means are at hand, and our decision is nearly or quite made. To intend is stronger, implying that we have decided to act when an opportunity may offer. A general meditates an attack upon the enemy; he contemplates or intends undertaking it at the earliest convenient season.

Meditate v. i. (past & past part. meditated; pres. part. meditating) To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. "In his law doth he meditate day and night."

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Etymology of 'Meditate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Meditate" Quotes from Famous Books

... works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... also the Feast of Ingathering, when we should thank God for the kindness shown us and the treasure with which He has blessed us. When the Eternal has provided man with his sustenance, in the long evenings which follow he should meditate and study his Bible, and make this indeed a "feast to the Lord," and not entirely for ...

— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various

... he spies from far A bull that seems to meditate the war, Bending his neck, and spurning back the sand— Runs roaring downward from his hilly stand; Imagine eager Turnus not more slow To rush from high on his unequal foe. ...

— Story of Aeneas • Michael Clarke

... of all things to Christ's servants very far, and the words of my text, in which he dares to suggest that 'the Shadow feared of man' is, after all, a veiled friend, are hard to believe, when we are brought face to face with death, either when we meditate on our own end, or when our hearts are sore and our hands are empty. Then the question comes, and often is asked with tears of blood, Is it true that this awful force, which we cannot command, does indeed serve us? Did it ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) • Alexander Maclaren

... pray you meditate a little on this striking and precious contrast. Here is Solomon in all his glory, with a brighter halo of human wisdom round his head than ever had any of the children of men. Turn to 1 Kings ...

— Old Groans and New Songs - Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes • F. C. Jennings

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