meditated
past simple and past participle ofmeditate
meditate
verb[I]
uk/ˈmed.ɪ.teɪt/us/ˈmed.ə.teɪt/tothinkcalmthoughtsinordertorelaxor as areligiousactivity:
Sophie meditates for 20minuteseveryday.
tothinkseriouslyabout something for alongtime:
He meditatedontheconsequencesof hisdecision.
Thinking and contemplating
- a brown studyidiom
- agonize
- agonize over/aboutsomething
- beard-stroking
- bethink
- consideration
- dip
- introspect
- introspection
- joined-up thinking
- lateral thinking
- let me see/let's seeidiom
- rack
- scratch
- scratchyourheadidiom
- self-contemplation
- self-reflection
- soul-searching
- spare
- spring to mindidiom
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Meditation, religious chanting & spiritual states
Examplesofmeditated
meditated
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
But upon what principle is the discrimination of the places of election to be made in order to answer the purpose of themeditatedpreference?
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This ear th-sur face entity was a potent source of shamanic power, and shamansmeditatedon her and placed their own images in her generative womb.
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Humans are unquestionably adept at planning skillful action, yet this function need not bemeditatedby a single system any more than memory, say, need consist of a single mechanism.
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James, we have seen, commended confession to his son andmeditatedon scripture always as the best tutor to and mirror of a king's conscience.
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All these matters, and more, have to bemeditatedupon; and on balance it may be found advantageous to dispose of the crop as soon as possible after the harvest.
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The choir, north and south transepts and the cloisters, where canons studied andmeditated, date from this period.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hemeditatedupon it and came to the conclusion that it is an apt name for a religious order which upholds both contemplation and action.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That is, the more a membermeditated, in general, the better the person was likely to feel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While she worked to support them, he wrote, took drugs,meditatedinformally, and studied books on hermeticism in order to make sense of his experiences.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cule tells us hemeditatedon this story for some time before writing it.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For a thousand more years they lived on air andmeditated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For a hundred years theymeditatedstanding only on one leg.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The same imitative or mimetic interaction with the natural sound world may also bemeditatedthrough the use of traditional musical instruments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Nearby were the medicine mans tipi where the main dancers prayed andmeditated, the sweat bath lodge for purification rights with a huge fireplace.
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