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;
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
a. [ OE. impacient, F. impatient, fr. L. impatiens; pref. im- not + patiens patient. See Patient. ]
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 ]
n. One who is impatient. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an impatient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]