Compatient

Compatient

Com*pa"tient\, a. [L. compatients, p. pr. of compati. See Compassion.] Suffering or enduring together. [Obs.] --Sir G. Buck.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Compatient is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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