meditate

To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.

To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.

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.

He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels. This created pictures of chrome and porcelain and attendant circumstances.

Meditated.