meditate
verb (used without object)
to engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.
had meditated
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past perfectof meditate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For my 2003 book Rational Mysticism, I interviewed men who claimed—or implied—that they had meditated their way to enlightenment.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 8, 2015
Most of his life he had meditated every day for four or five hours or more.
From Slate ● May 15, 2013
A man as spiritual as he was stubborn, John had meditated daily for years, an hour or so at a time, an essential part of his religious faith and practice.
From Washington Post
The Bulwark, which he had meditated for some 30 years, is an unpretentious, fitting valedictory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here John slily deposited back upon the plate a bunch of grapes, which, not unobserved by Alice, he had meditated dividing with her, and both seemed willing to relinquish them for the present as irrelevant.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
