v.
  - focus one's mind for a period of time for spiritual purposes or as a method of relaxation.
- 
(often meditate on/upon)
 think carefully about something.
Derivative
  
    - meditative adj.
- meditatively adv.
- meditativeness n.
- meditator n.
 
  Etymology
  C16 (earlier (ME) as meditation): from L. meditat-, meditari ‘contemplate’, from a base meaning ‘measure’; rel. to mete1.