Patient

Definition of Patient

Pa´tient Pronunciation: pā´shent

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

- Bp. Fell.

Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.

- Sir I. Newton.

Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

Not patient to expect the turns of fate.

- Prior.

Forbearing; long-suffering.

Be patient toward all men.

- 1 Thess. v. 14.

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.

- Gov. of Tongue.

A person under medical or surgical treatment; - correlative to physician or nurse.

Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.

- Sir P. Sidney.

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.

v. t.

To compose, to calm.

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