Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tolerate

Tolerate , transitive verb

[Latin toleratus, past participle of tolerare, from the same root as tollere to lift up, tuli, used as perfect of ferre to bear, latus (for tlatus), used as past participle of ferre to bear, and English thole. See Thole, and compare Atlas, Collation, Delay, Elate, Extol, Legislate, Oblate, Prelate, Relate, Superlative, Talent, Toll to take away, Translate.]

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.
Crying should not be tolerated in children. — Locke
We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. — Burke