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a. [ L. bis twice + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] Dividing into two parts. -- n. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., good Christian. ] A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caecutire to be blind, fr. caecus blind. ] Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compatients, p. pr. of compati. See Compassion. ] Suffering or enduring together. [ Obs. ] Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consentients, p. pr. See Consent. ] Agreeing in mind; accordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perceiving together. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discutiens, p. pr. of discutere. See Discuss. ] (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. “Foment with discutiens.” Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissentiens, p. pr. of dissentire. See Dissent, v. i. ] Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n. One who dissents. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia. ] The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. [ 1913 Webster ]

I then, . . .
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impatience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., impatient. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. impacient, F. impatient, fr. L. impatiens; pref. im- not + patiens patient. See Patient. ] 1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not to be borne; unendurable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies. Shak.

Syn. -- Restless; uneasy; changeable; hot; eager; fretful; intolerant; passionate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is impatient. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an impatient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state or quality of being insentient; lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient. [ wns=1+3 ]
Syn. -- inanimate, insensate. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. incapable of sensation.
Syn. -- insensate, insensible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + L. sitiens, p. pr. of sitire to be thirsty, fr. sitis thirst. ] Freedom from thirst. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. investiens, p. pr. of investire. ] Covering; clothing. [ R. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Omni- + patient. ] Capable of enduring all things. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medical patient who receives treatment at a hospital, especially in an emergency room, but is not admitted to stay overnight. Distinguished from inpatient, who is assigned to a room to reside there while being treated. [ PJC ]

a. Patient to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. patience, fr. L. patientia. See Patient. ] 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering. Col. i. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who hath learned lowliness
From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. [ 1913 Webster ]

He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Sufferance; permission. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

They stay upon your patience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Card Playing) Solitaire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Patience, Resignation. Patience implies the quietness or self-possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

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 ]

v. t. To compose, to calm. [ Obs. ] “Patient yourself, madam.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a patient manner. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. percutiens, p. pr. of percutere. See Percuss. ] Striking; having the power of striking. -- n. That which strikes, or has power to strike. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praesentiens, p. pr. of praesentire to perceive beforehand; prae before + sentire to feel. ] Feeling or perceiving beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. quoties how often, how many times, fr. quot how many. See Quota. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arith.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Higher Alg.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Sentient, Sentence. ] The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense. ] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sentient or perceptive way. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. superpartiens; super over + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] (Math.) Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [ Obs. ] Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chinese, square of heavenly peace. ] a large plaza in Beijing, China. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ Sp., prop., tent, awning. ] In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. transfiguratio: cf. transfiguration. ] 1. A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Tripartite. ] (Arith.) Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impatience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impatient. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

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