meditari

The word ‘meditate’ comes from the Latin meditari, which means ‘to contemplate, to consider deeply, to think’.

Archive 2010-01-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Optimum de coelestibus et honestis meditari, et ea facere.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[2781] It is difficult to give an exact rendering of meletan in this passage; the old Lat. version translates it by meditari, which Massuet proposes to render "skilfully to fit."

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Magnum erat profecto sic meditari, sic scribere; multo majus sic vivere, sic mori: ut sit hæc pene nimia dictu pietas exemplo illius superata.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Aduersarium fudimus, &c. Pro delicijs habuit, vt Sextus Aurelianus tradit, literarum studia colere, bonos artes fouere, legere, scribere, meditari: composuit Græcè et Latinè multos libros et Epistolas.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584

Itaque scribam ad te ijsdem ferè verbis, quia noua meditari et [Greek: sunonumixein] mihi hoc tempore non vacat.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

Ergofacri fiquid meditari aut rcnbere poffuj Harc accepta tibiacundipotenre, rcfcr«

Horou Apollonos neiloou Hieroglyphika = Ori Apollinis niliaci, De sacris notis & sculpturis libri duo Philippus 1551

* facere; sed necessarium est ut a Deo, in Christo, per Spiritum ipsius Sanctum regeneretur atque renovetur, intellectu, affectibus seu voluntate, omnibusque viribus, ut vere bonum recti possit intelligere, meditari, velle atque proficere sicut scriptum est:

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

5: 'Sonder my en condt ghy niet doen.' facere; sed necessarium est ut a Deo, in Christo, per Spiritum ipsius Sanctum regeneretur atque renovetur, intellectu, affectibus seu voluntate, omnibusque viribus, ut vere bonum recti possit intelligere, meditari, velle atque proficere sicut scriptum est Joh. xv.

The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

See morgen. met, st. n., _thought, intention_ (cf. metian = meditari): acc.pl. onsǣl meoto, 489 (meaning doubtful; see Bugge, Journal 8, 292; Dietrich, Haupt's

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879