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meditative, a. and n.|ˈmɛdɪtətɪv, ˈmɛdɪteɪtɪv|
[ad. late L. meditātīv-us, f. ppl. stem of meditārī to meditate: see -ive. Cf. F. méditatif.]
A. adj.
1. Of persons, their dispositions or state of mind: Inclined or accustomed to meditation.
1656Blount Glossogr., Meditative, apt to meditate, or cast in the mind. 1683Howe Union Among Prot. Wks. (1846) 108 His musing meditative mind. 1784Berington Hist. Abeillard iv. 198 Abeillard..was pious, reserved, meditative. 1798Coleridge Fears in Solitude 23 And he, with many feelings,..Made up a meditative joy. 1874Green Short Hist. vii §7. 426 The melancholy and meditative Jaques. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. I. i. ii. §8. 194 The highest calls of meditative piety.
b. Inclined to meditate or engaged in meditating (something specified). Const. of.
1876M. Collins Fr. Midnight to Midn. II. ii. 223 There..is our ontologic poet, meditative of incisive analytic unscannable blank verse.
2. Of actions, manner, appearance, etc.: Accompanied by meditation; indicative of meditation.
1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 43 He used to take his meditative walks. 1903T. P.'s Weekly 6 Nov. 724/2 After a dozen meditative pulls of his pipe, Harry proceeded.
3. Conducive to meditation.
1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. II. 64 A stone wall, when shrubbery has grown around it,..becomes a very pleasant and meditative object.
†4. Gram. = desiderative. Obs.
1755Johnson, Meditative, expressing intention or design.
†B. n. A desiderative word. Obs.
1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 127 What Verbs do you call Meditatives? 1635Grammar Warre B viij, Other Adverbs: as Meditatives, Deminutives, and Denominatives. 1726S. Lowe Lat. Gram. 12 Meditatives in -urio. 1845Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 50/1 Most of the verbs in rio are meditatives. |