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   Patient , a. [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.]
    Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
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   Patient of severest toil and hardship.
   Bp. Fell.
   
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   Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
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   Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
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   Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
   Sir I. Newton.
   
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   Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
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   Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
   Prior.
   
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   Forbearing; long-suffering.
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   Be patient toward all men.
   1 Thess. v. 14.
   
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   Patient, n.
   One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
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   Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient.
   Gov. of Tongue.
   
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   A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
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   Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
   Sir P. Sidney.
   
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   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.
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   Patient, v. t. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] “Patient yourself, madam.”
   Shak.
   
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