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Definition: MEDITATED |
MEDITATEDImperative & past participle1. Of Meditate |
Date "MEDITATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Aristotle | All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Providence had meditated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Being without a mother, he had meditated upon his mother country. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals against a foreign nation in amity with the United States, powers of prevention to a certain extent are given by the laws. |
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| "MEDITATED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 74.07% of the time. "MEDITATED" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 74.07% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 25.93% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "MEDITATED": pre-meditated. | |
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| Language | Translations for "MEDITATED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | méditai, médités, méditée, médité, méditâmes. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | nachgedacht (thought about), meditierte. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | editatedmay размышлять (cogitate, contemplate, meditate, meditating, mull over, muse about, perpend, ratiocinate, reason, reflect, speculate, speculated, speculates). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MEDITATED": premeditated, unpremeditated. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MEDITATED": premeditatedly. (additional references) | |
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"MEDITATED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mediatized, meditiate, meditive, medtiate, megditure, Mehitabel, myelinated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-m-t-t" | |
-1 letter: admitted, demitted, mediated, meditate. | |
-2 letters: emitted, ideated, mediate, teatime. | |
-3 letters: diadem, dieted, edited, ideate, itemed, matted, meated, mediad, mediae, metate, teamed, teated. | |
-4 letters: adeem, admit, aided, aimed, amide, dated, demit, edema, mated, matte, media, meted, tamed, tided, timed. | |
-5 letters: adit, aide, amid, amie, dame, date, dead, deed, deem, deet, deme, died, diet, dime, dita, dite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-m-t-t" | |
+1 letter: readmitted. | |
+2 letters: preadmitted. | |
+3 letters: dermatitides, domesticated, premeditated. | |
+4 letters: intermediated. | |
+5 letters: decontaminated, premeditatedly, underestimated, undomesticated, unpremeditated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 44 49 54 41 54 45 44 |
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