Meditation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: med=i=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Meditation, n. [OE. meditacioun, F. méditation, fr. L. meditatio.].

•  The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.  [1913 Webster]

  "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight."  [1913 Webster]
•  Thought; -- without regard to kind.  [1913 Webster]

  "With wings as swift
  As meditation or the thoughts of love."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Meditation

Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, a wise passiveness, absorbed attention, absorption, advisement, aid prayer, appeal, application, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, brooding, chaplet, collect, communion, concentration, consideration, contemplation, contemplative life, counsel, deep study, deep thought, deliberation, devotions, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, engagement, engrossment, entreaty, grace, idleness, immersion, immobility, impetration, imploration, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, inertness, intentness, intercession, invocation, involvement, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, litany, lucubration, monomania, musing, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, obsecration, obsession, obtestation, orison, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, petition, policy, pondering, prayer, prayer wheel, preoccupation, procrastination, profound thought, quiescence, quietism, rapt attention, reflection, revolving, rogation, rosary, rumination, silent prayer, single-mindedness, speculation, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, studiousness, study, submersion, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting, weighing

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Meditation

Thought

N thought, exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect, intellection, reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering, head work, brain work, cerebration, deep reflection, close study, application, abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing, brown study, reverie, Platonism, depth of thought, workings of the mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts, self-counsel self-communing, self- consultation, philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy, philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the Porch, association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas, flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas, after thought, mature thought, reconsideration, second thoughts, retrospection, excogitation, examination, invention, thoughtfulness, thinking, thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective, museful, wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious, sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical, lost in thought, deep musing, in the mind, under consideration, all things considered, the mind being on the stretch, the mind turning upon, the head turning upon, the mind running upon, divinely, bent to meditation, en toute chose il faut considerer la fin, fresh- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought, go speed the stars of Thought, in maiden meditation fancy-free, so sweet is zealous contemplation, the power of thought is the magic of the Mind, those that think must govern those that toil, thought is parent of the deed, thoughts in attitudes imperious, thoughts that breathe and words that burn, vivere est cogitare, Volk der Dichter und Denker.