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Patient   /pˈeɪʃənt/   Listen
Patient

noun
1.
A person who requires medical care.
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.  Synonyms: affected role, patient role.
adjective
1.
Enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance.  "Was patient with the children" , "An exact and patient scientist" , "Please be patient"



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"Patient" Quotes from Famous Books



... patients in the afternoon. Those that are men of figure amongst them will not rise out of their beds or break their rest on every call. The greatest fatigue they undergo is the going up forty or fifty pair of stairs every day; for the patient is generally laid pretty near the garret, that ...
— London in 1731 • Don Manoel Gonzales
... and "Bud Means," "Ralph Hartsook," the teacher, "Little Shocky" and sweet patient "Hannah," were as real as Cyrus Button and Daddy Fairbanks. We could hardly wait for the next number of the paper, so concerned were we about "Hannah" and "Ralph." We quoted old lady Means and we ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... manifestly he must reach before dark. The travel became faster, straighter. And the glistening thorns clutched and clung to leather and cloth and flesh. The horses reared, snorted, balked, leaped—but they were sent on. Only Blanco Sol, the patient, the plodding, the indomitable, needed no goad or spur. Waves and scarfs and wreaths of heat smoked up from the sand. Mercedes reeled in her saddle. Thorne bade her drink, bathed her face, supported her, and ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... was a student of physic, and just beginning the practice of that noble profession with some reputation, a man-slave called me to see a patient in the city governor's family. I went accordingly, and was carried into a room, where I found a very handsome young man mightily cast down with his condition: I saluted him, and sat down by him, but he ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1 • Anonymous
... I entreat as a friend—I command you to be patient," said the count, who saw Lord Colambre's indignation ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. 6 • Maria Edgeworth


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