meditere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →medito, meditare, meditavi, meditatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Medieval
consider/contemplate/ponder; meditate, think about; reflect on; devise/plan;; have in mind, intend; think out, prepare a speech; practice public speaking;; rehearse; go over, say to oneself; declaim, work over (song) in performance;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 2nd - Entry →meditor, meditari, meditatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
consider/contemplate/ponder; meditate, think about; reflect on; devise/plan;; have in mind, intend; think out, prepare a speech; practice public speaking;; rehearse; go over, say to oneself; declaim, work over (song) in performance;
sg. pres. subj. 2nd
Examples
In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...umquam te corrigas, tu ut ullam fugam meditere, tu ut ullum exilium cogites? Utinam tibi istam mentem..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...dissenties, ut qui semper clarum aliquid et immortale meditere. Vale. C. PLINIUS MACRINO SUO S. Vererer ne immodicam..."
