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Grammar : Verb
Spell : med-i-teyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛd ɪˌteɪt



Definition of meditate

Origin :
  • 1580s, "to ponder," back-formation from meditation, or else from Latin meditatus, past participle of meditari (see meditation). Related: Meditated; meditating.
  • verb contemplate
Example sentences :
  • I haven't the least desire to sit alone and moon and meditate.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • He is expected to see and to sing, not to scrutinize and meditate.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Old English Ballads » by George Wharton Edwards
  • I shut myself into this place of seclusion, after breakfast, and meditate.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • Among these tranquillising objects, it is my delight to walk and meditate.
  • Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
  • It sent his mind inwards; it drove him to meditate upon the laws and secrets of his art.
  • Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
  • I would not that you should ever be able to reproach me for the madness that you meditate.
  • Extract from : « A Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales » by Guy De Maupassant
  • Meditate upon it, and on the insignificance and evanescence of human life.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • My heart will break if this thing you meditate comes to pass.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Baffled, defeated, disgraced by her colonies, she will ever meditate revenge.
  • Extract from : « Patrick Henry » by Moses Coit Tyler
  • He wanted a place to meditate in, walk up and down, think out his sermons.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

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