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Patient \Pa"tient\, n.
1. 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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2. 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 \Pa"tient\ (p[=a]"shent), 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.
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Patient of severest toil and hardship. --Bp. Fell.
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2. Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring
or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against
trouble; long-suffering.
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3. 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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4. 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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5. Forbearing; long-suffering.
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Be patient toward all men. --1 Thess. v.
14.
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Patient \Pa"tient\, v. t.
To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam."
--Shak.
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