med it a bundt (med"itabund)

[ Your first thought is more Than others's labour'd meditance; your premeditating More than their actions. Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 1. meditant (med'i-tant), a. and n. [L. med i tan (t-)s, ppr. of meditari , meditate: see med i tate.] I.t a. Meditating. A wise justice of peace meditant. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, Ind. II. n. One who meditates; one who gives himself up to meditation. [Rare.] Celestial Meditant ! whose Ardours rise Deep from the Tombs, and kindle to the Skies. A Physician, To James Hervey, on his Meditations among [the Tombs (1748). meditate (med'i-tāt), v.; pret. and pp. med i tated, ppr. meditating. [L. med it at us, pp. of meditari (> It. med it are = Sp. Pg. meditar = F. méditer ), think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend; in form as if freq. of mederi, heal, cure; in sense (and in form, allowing for the po ible interchange of d and l) near to Gr. μελετᾶν, care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.] I. in trans. 1. To think abstractedly; engage in mental contemplation; revolve a subject in the mind; cogitate; ruminate. Isaac went out to meditate in the field at eventide. Gen. xxiv. 63. He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation . Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. 62. Meditations in order to a good life, let them be as exalted as the capacity of the person and subject will endure up to the height of contemplation; but if contemplation comes to be a distinct thing, and something besides or beyond a distinct degree of virtuous meditation, it is lost to all sense, and religion, and prudence. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 73. 3. In theol .: (a) A private devotional act, consisting in deliberate reflection upon some spiritual truth or mystery, accompanied by mental prayer and by acts of the affections and of the will, especially formation of resolutions as to future conduct. Meditation differs from study in that its principal object is not to acquire knowledge, but to advance in love of God and holine of life. (b) A public act of devotion, in which a director leads a congregation in meditating upon some spiritual subject.-4. A short literary composition in which the subject (usually religious) is treated in a meditative manner: as, a volume of hymns and meditations . But natheles this meditacioun I putte it ay under correccioun Of clerkes; for I am not textuel. Chaucer, Prol. to Parson's Tale, 1. 55.