meditate

Etymology

From Latin meditatus, past participle of meditari (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”), in form as if frequentative of mederi (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Greek μελετῶ (meletô, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
2. (intransitive) To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
3. (transitive) To consider; to reflect on.
   […] yet I can by no means be persuaded that he could find leisure enough to write so many copies of it in his solitudes and sufferings, in the midst of treaties, in the hurry of removals, while he meditated his escape, and was strictly observ'd by his guards. 1761, John Toland, The Life Of Iohn Milton
   He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels. This created pictures of chrome and porcelain and attendant circumstances. 1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin