单词 | meditated |
释义 | meditatedadj. Thought out, planned, premeditated; produced or prepared by meditation. Also: contemplated, intended. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > relating to intention or purpose > intended or purposed purposed?a1425 pretenced1543 pretended1573 meditated1588 meant1590 intended1592 contemplated1657 intending1788 would-be1813 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adjective] > weighed mentally, considered counterpoised1477 beholden1530 concoct1534 pensive1575 meditate1588 meditated1588 considered1604 ruminated1605 (crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692 thought-out1833 ponderated1892 ponderate1922 thought-through1922 1588 W. Clowes Prooued Pract. Young Chirurgians To Rdr. sig. A4v The well obserued practises, and meditated rules of the generations of learned men, and diligent artists in time, gone before vs. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 300 Yet, while thy Lucan doth in silence scan Vnto himselfe new-meditated laies, To finish vp his sad Pharsalian fraies. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 55 In meditated fraud and malice, bent On mans destruction. View more context for this quotation 1718 in Notes & Queries (1986) Mar. 15/2 But Ajax shunn'd the meditated Blow. 1783 C. Johnstone Chrysal (new ed.) II. ii. ii. 168 Walking a meditated turn or two across the tent. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ix. 388 The food of hope Is meditated action. View more context for this quotation 1841 T. B. Macaulay Leigh Hunt in Ess. (1903) III. 43 The Way of the World, the most deeply meditated and the most brilliantly written of all his works. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. ii. 49 Already there were dark rumours of his treachery and meditated revolt. 1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out iii. 39 Their tour was thoroughly unconventional, and followed no meditated plan. 1988 C. Ozick Metaphor & Memory (1989) 47 A meditated act, a noninstinctive, unnatural choice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1588 |
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