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noun

Patient n.

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."

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.

adjective

Patient adj.

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."

verb

Patient v. t. To compose, to calm. (Obs.) "Patient yourself, madam."

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Etymology of 'Patient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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