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Pa"tient (p&ā;"sh&eitalic_;nt), a. [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.] 1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
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Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.
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2. Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
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3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
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Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. Sir I. Newton.
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4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
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Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior.
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5. Forbearing; long-suffering.
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Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.
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Pa"tient, n. 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
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Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.
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2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
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Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney.
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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.
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Pa"tient, v. t. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] “Patient yourself, madam.” Shak.
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