Meaning
To meditate — to reflect deeply, reason, and commune with Jah — the word remade in Rastafari speech with the affirming 'I' in place of 'me'. To 'iditate' is to sit in quiet contemplation and spiritual thought, often in the stillness that follows or accompanies reasoning and the herb, opening the mind to inner truth and to the divine. Like 'inity' and 'idren', it reshapes an English word around the sacred 'I', binding meditation to the Rastafari sense that the self and the Most High are one.
Examples
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Him iditate every mawnin pon di scripture.
He meditates every morning on the scripture.
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Wi iditate an reason together.
We meditate and reason together.
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Tek time fi iditate pon it.
Take time to meditate on it.
Origin
A Rastafari Iyaric reshaping of 'meditate': the 'me' — which makes the self an object — is replaced with the affirming 'I'.
How it’s used
Belongs to Rastafari reasoning and reflection, chosen over 'meditate' to centre the divine 'I'. Compare 'overstand' and 'fulljoy'.