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meditate
verb meditated, meditating
    intr
    1. To spend time in deep religious or spiritual thought, often with the mind in a practised state of emptiness.
    2. To think deeply and carefully about something; to reflect upon it.
      Thesaurus: ponder, contemplate, ruminate, reflect, consider, cogitate, deliberate, mull over, brood over, chew the cud.
      Form: meditate about something (often)
      Form: meditate on something
Derivative: meditative
    Inclined to meditate.
    Encouraging or giving rise to meditation.
Derivative: meditatively
adverb
    Etymology: 16c: from Latin meditari to reflect upon.



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