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pa·tient       [pey-shuhnt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person who is under medical care or treatment.
2.a person or thing that undergoes some action.
3.Archaic. a sufferer or victim.
–adjective
4.bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like.
5.characterized by or expressing such a quality: a patient smile.
6.quietly and steadily persevering or diligent, esp. in detail or exactness: a patient worker.
7.undergoing the action of another (opposed to agent).
—Idiom
8.patient of,
a.having or showing the capacity for endurance: a man patient of distractions.
b.susceptible of: This statement is patient of criticism.
[Origin: 1275–1325; ME pacient (adj. and n.) < MF < L patient- (s. of patiéns), prp. of patī to undergo, suffer, bear; see -ent]

—Related forms
pa·tient·less, adjective
pa·tient·ly, adverb
pa·tient·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. invalid. 4. uncomplaining, long-suffering, forbearing, resigned, passive, calm. 5. quiet, serene, unruffled, unexcited, self-possessed, composed. 6. sedulous, assiduous, untiring.
—Antonyms 4. hostile. 5. impatient, agitated.
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pa·tient       (pā'shənt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.
  2. Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.
  3. Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide.
  4. Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
  5. Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
  6. Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance: "My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries" (Laurence Sterne).

n.  
  1. One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
  2. Linguistics A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
  3. Archaic One who suffers.


[Middle English pacient, from Old French, from Latin patiēns, patient-, present participle of patī, to endure; see pē(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

pa'tient·ly adv.
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patient  (adj.)
c.1320, "bearing or enduring without complaint," from L. patientem (see patience). Noun sense of "suffering or sick person" is from 1393, from O.Fr. pacient (n.), from the adj., from L. patientem.

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patient

adjective
1. enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile"; "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient scientist"; "please be patient" [ant: impatient] 

noun
1. a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly" 
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 [syn: affected role] 

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patient pa·tient (pā'shənt)
n.
One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.

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Patient

Pa"tient\, a. [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.

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Patient

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.

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Patient

Pa"tient\, v. t. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." --Shak.

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