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Webster 1913 Edition
Patient
Pa′tient
(pā′shent)
, Adj.
1.
Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient
of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.
2.
Undergoing pains, trials, 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
endeavorWhatever 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
,Noun.
1.
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.
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
,Verb.
T.
To compose, to calm.
[Obs.]
“Patient yourself, madam.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Patient
PATIENT
,Adj.
1.
Having the quality of enduring evils without murmuring or fretfulness; sustaining afflictions of body or mind with fortitude, calmness or christian submission to the divine will; as a patient person, or a person of patient temper. It is followed by of before the evil endured; as patient of labor or pain; patient of heat or cold.2.
Not easily provoked; calm under the sufferance of injuries or offenses; not revengeful. Be patient towards all men. 1 Thess.5.
3.
Persevering; constant in pursuit or exertion; calmly diligent. Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.
4.
Not hasty; not over eager or impetuous; waiting or expecting with calmness or without discontent. Not patient to expect the turns of fate.
Definition 2025
patiënt
patiënt
Dutch
Noun
patiënt m (plural patiënten, diminutive patiëntje n)
- (medicine) patient, someone who receives therapeutic treatment
- (figuratively) someone/something getting some help
Derived terms
- patiëntenzorg