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# meditate

«meditate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to sit quietly and focus your mind, often on your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (meditate, meditates, meditated, meditating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To meditate is to sit quietly and focus your mind, often on your breathing, to feel calm and peaceful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#m1)

2) (church, religion) To meditate is to think deeply and prayerfully about God or a holy text; Buddhists, Hindus and Christians all meditate in their own ways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#m2)

3) (formal) To meditate on something is to think about it seriously for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PSHE and well-being lessons, children meditate or do «mindfulness» to calm worries and anger. In RE, pupils learn Buddhist meditation and Christian prayerful reading of the Psalms. Phrases: «meditate on», «meditate for ten minutes», «guided meditation».

### examples

- We meditate for five minutes after lunch to calm down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x1)
- The monk meditated in silence for hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x2)
- The psalm says to meditate on God's law day and night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x3)
- When I feel angry, I meditate and count my breaths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x4)
- Buddhists meditate to train their minds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x5)
- She meditated on what her grandmother had said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x6)
- He sat down on the shore and meditated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: meditated, meditating. Noun «meditation». Trap: do not confuse with «medicate» (give medicine) or «mediate» (help two sides agree). Meditating is not sleeping; you stay awake and calm.

### In the corpora

- [But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1/)
- [When I remember Thee upon my couch, and meditate on Thee in the night-watches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1024/)
- [I will meditate also upon all Thy work, and muse on Thy doings.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1318/)
- [I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2178/)
- [Even though princes sit and talk against me, thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2186/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «meditate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meditate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.