Category:Patient

Pa"tient, a. Etym: [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. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

2. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or Fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long- Suffering.

3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, Patient endeavor. Whatever i have done is due to patient thought. Sir i. Newton.

4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not Overeager; composed. Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior.

5. Forbearing; long-suffering. Be patient toward all men. 1 thess. v. 14.

Patient Pa"tient, n.

1. 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.

2. 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 Pa"tient, v. t.

Defn: to compose, to calm. [obs.] "patient yourself, madam." Shak.