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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Patient \Pa"tient\, n. 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. [1913 Webster] Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster] 2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. [1913 Webster] Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Patient of severest toil and hardship. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster] 2. Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering. [1913 Webster] 3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. [1913 Webster] Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster] 4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. [1913 Webster] Not patient to expect the turns of fate. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 5. Forbearing; long-suffering. [1913 Webster] Be patient toward all men. --1 Thess. v. 14. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Patient \Pa"tient\, v. t. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: patient adj 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}] n 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}, {patient role}, {patient}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: patient /pasjɑ̃/ patient From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: patient patient From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Patient /patsiːɛnt/ patient From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: patient 1. patient 2. patient