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Definition of Meditative

1. Adjective. Deeply or seriously thoughtful. "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"

Definition of Meditative

1. a. Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.

Definition of Meditative

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to ''meditation''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meditative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meditative

Literary usage of Meditative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Scientific Basis of Education Demonstrated: By an Analysis of the by John Hecker (1867)
"It should lead the meditative part, while the meditative cluster, ... Washington was an instance in which the predominance of the meditative part over the ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"... and Brown, and Miss Anna Shipton's "The Sure Mercies 01 David," and other meditative volumes, may be commended to those seeking religious books. и. ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"a power of criticism and selection as fastidious as Gray's, with infinitely more creative genius; and a power of meditative reflection which, ..."

4. The New Hampshire Repository by William Cogswell (1846)
"This passage from Milton suggests a truth which is worthy our attention, namely, the high value of a meditative spirit, and its special importance to the ..."

5. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"CHAPTER XII meditative AND DESCRIPTIVE POETRY ON the whole, the most interesting of all the forgotten verse of this neglected century, the most readable and ..."

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