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Patient

Patient (patient)
a.	(?)
Pa"tient
[F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.]

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. Sir I. Newton.

Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior.

Forbearing; long-suffering.

Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.

Patient

Patient (patient)
n.
Pa"tient

ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.

A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney.

In patient, a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. -- Out patient, one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.

Patient

Patient (patient)
v. t.
Pa"tient

To compose, to calm.

[Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." Shak.

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The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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