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.
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.