You searched for:
“meditate”
mediate, meditate
mediate (MEE dee ayt") (verb)
1. To intervene between two or more disputants in order to bring about an agreement, a settlement, or a compromise: Clarence has been appointed by the government to mediate in the dispute between the auto company and the striking workers.
2. To settle or to reconcile differences between people: Negotiations are going on to mediate a cease-fire between the two belligerents.
2. To settle or to reconcile differences between people: Negotiations are going on to mediate a cease-fire between the two belligerents.
meditate (MED i tayt") (verb)
1. To think or to mentally reflect; especially, in a calm and deliberate manner; to contemplate: Marion's friend will take time every day to meditate for an hour during the morning.
2. To engage in devotional contemplation, especially prayer: Martin wants to meditate about the importance of God in his life.
2. To engage in devotional contemplation, especially prayer: Martin wants to meditate about the importance of God in his life.
Sue's doctor tried to mediate her emotional concerns by suggesting that she meditate some more and consider what the consequences would be if she doesn't see a psyciatrist.
This entry is located in the following unit:
Confusing Words Clarified: Group M; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
(page 3)
meditate (verb), meditates; meditated; meditating
1. To concentrate the brain on one thing, in order to aid mental or spiritual development, contemplation, or relaxation: Some people have a ritual during which they meditate and think deeply or focus their minds for a period of time, in silence or with the aid of chanting, for religious or devotional reasons, or simply as a method of repose.
2. To think about something carefully, calmly, seriously, and for some time: Too few people set aside enough time to meditate before they make important decisions.
3. To plan, to devise, to consider: The congressman who is running for office is meditating a response for his critics.
4. Etymology: from Latin meditatus, the past participle of meditari, "to think over, to consider, to reflect".
© ALL rights are reserved.
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
2. To think about something carefully, calmly, seriously, and for some time: Too few people set aside enough time to meditate before they make important decisions.
3. To plan, to devise, to consider: The congressman who is running for office is meditating a response for his critics.
4. Etymology: from Latin meditatus, the past participle of meditari, "to think over, to consider, to reflect".
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.
This entry is located in the following unit:
medita-, meditat-
(page 1)
(Latin: musum, "muzzle, snout"; Old French muser "to meditate, to ponder", perhaps literally "to go around with one's nose in the air" from muse "muzzle, snout")
(Latin: to chew over again, to chew the cud; to muse or to meditate; that is, to think about something in a deep and serious or dreamy and abstracted way or to think about something carefully, calmly, seriously, and for a long time)