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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of meditor.
Participle
meditātus (feminine meditāta, neuter meditātum); first/second-declension participle
- meditated
c. 58–57 BCE, Cicero, De Haruspicum Responso:Nihil feci iratus, nihil impotenti animo, nihil non diu consideratum et multo ante meditatum.- Nothing that I did was done in anger or upon uncontrolled impulse; there was nothing that I had not long pondered and rehearsed some considerable time before.
- intentional, premeditated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “meditatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “meditatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- meditatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a prepared speech: oratio meditata (Plin. 26. 3. 7)