Meaning

noun continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature

noun (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)

originFrom Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

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