Patient
Patient (pā"shent) , adjective
[French, from Latin patiens, -entis, present participle of pati to suffer. Compare Pathos, Passion.]
1.
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship.
2.
Undergoing pains, trials, 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.
4.
Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
5.
Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men.
Patient , noun
1.
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.
2.
A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician,... seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
Collocations (2)
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 , transitive verb
To compose, to calm. [Obsolete]
Patient yourself, madam.