meditate Copy link Outline I. To dwell upon in thought1. cōgĭto, 1 (to think about)2. volvo, vi, ūtum, 3 (to turn over carefully in the mind)3. mĕdĭtor, 1 (to bring care and effort to bear upon anything4. commentor, 1 (to think carefully of, study, devise)II. To be bent on, have in view1. mĕdĭtor, 12. expr. by in animo est (with dat. of person), etc. • meditate: I. To dwell upon in thought: 1. cōgĭto, 1 (to think about): more fully, animo agitare et cogitare de aliqua re, Cic. Font. 6, 12: cf. id. N. D. 1, 41, 114: with acc. of neut. pron., aliquid attentius c., id. Off. 1, 40, 144: v. to think. 2. volvo, vi, ūtum, 3 (to turn over carefully in the mind): as he was m.ing upon many (different) plans, multa secum volventi, Liv. 26, 7: Sall.: more precisely, animo volvere, Liv. 42, 5, init. So voluto, 1 (frequent.): Liv.: Lucr. (N.B.--Volvo, voluto denote anxious meditation upon schemes, dangers, etc.; not calm philosophical meditation.) 3. mĕdĭtor, 1 (to bring care and effort to bear upon anything: rarely if ever of pure meditation): I was m.ing "studying") what to say in reply, quid contra dicerem mecum ipse meditabar, Cic. N. D. 3, init.: so of an orator studying his brief, id. Off. 1, 40, 144: Hor. S. 1, 9, 2 (cf. Forcell. s. v., universim meditari aliquid est non solum cogitando persequi, sed etiam agendo et praeparando). See also to contemplate, consider. 4. commentor, 1 (to think carefully of, study, devise): cf. Cic. Br. 88, 301, quae secum commentatus esset, i. e. what he had studied and prepared (without writing). II. To be bent on, have in view: 1. mĕdĭtor, 1: he was m.ing an invasion of Persia, meditabatur proficisci in Persas, Nep. Ages. 4, init.: Cic. 2. expr. by in animo est (with dat. of person), etc.: v. to intend.