PATIENTER

Adjective

patienter

(rare) comparative form of patient

Anagrams

• pertinate

Source: Wiktionary


PATIENT

Pa"tient, a. Etym: [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p.pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.]

1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

2. Undergoing pains, trails, 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. Sir I. Newton.

4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior.

5. Forbearing; long-suffering. Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.

Pa"tient, n.

1. ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.

2. 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.

Pa"tient, v. t.

Definition: To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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CHRONIC

(adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering; “chronic indigestion”; “a chronic shortage of funds”; “a chronic invalid”


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