ditation

English

Etymology

From Latin ditare (“to enrich”), from dis, ditis, same as dives (“rich”).

Noun

ditation

1. (obsolete) The act of making rich; enrichment.
   • 1633, Joseph Hall, A paraphrase upon the hard texts of Scripture:

     Late at night, and early in the morning, did I give myself to me ditation in thy word

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ditation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)