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 Definitions for patient: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Patient \Pa"tient\ (p[=a]"shent), 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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Patient \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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Patient \Pa"tient\, v. t.
To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam."
--Shak.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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patient
adj 1: enduring trying circumstances with even temper or
characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile";
"was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient
scientist"; "please be patient" [ant: impatient]
2: enduring without protest or complaint
n 1: a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency
patients has grown rapidly"
2: the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is
directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted
by the verb in the clause [syn: affected role, {patient
role}]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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156 Moby Thesaurus words for "patient":
Spartan, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, apoplectic,
armed with patience, arthritic, assiduous, benevolent, bovine,
case, charitable, clement, compassionate, compliant, conciliatory,
constant, consumptive, continuing, determined, diligent,
disciplined, dispassionate, dogged, dull, dyspeptic, easy,
easygoing, endurant, enduring, epileptic, even-tempered, faithful,
firm, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle,
guinea pig, humane, immutable, impassive, imperturbable,
inalterable, incurable, indefatigable, indomitable, indulgent,
industrious, inexcitable, inirritable, inpatient, insistent,
invalid, invincible, kind, laboratory animal, lasting, lax,
lenient, long-suffering, longanimous, loyal, magnanimous, merciful,
mild, moderate, never-tiring, obstinate, outpatient, passive,
patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent,
persisting, pertinacious, philosophical, placable, plodding,
plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resigned, resolute,
resolved, rheumatic, sedulous, self-controlled, self-possessed,
serene, shut-in, sick person, single-minded, sleepless, slogging,
soft, sparing, spastic, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stoic,
stoical, stolid, stubborn, subject, submissive, sufferer,
tenacious, tender, terminal case, testee, the sick, tireless,
tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, unabating, unconquerable,
undaunted, understanding, undiscouraged, undisturbable, undrooping,
unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, unirritable, unnervous, unnodding,
unpassionate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unresentful,
unrevengeful, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering,
unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive,
valetudinarian, weariless
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