Patient

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To compose, to calm.

II. Patient ·adj Forbearing; long-suffering.

III. Patient ·adj Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

IV. Patient ·noun ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

V. Patient ·noun A person under medical or surgical treatment;

— correlative to physician or nurse.

VI. Patient ·adj Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

VII. Patient ·adj Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

VIII. Patient ·adj Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

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