- (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
- (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
- (n.) ONe who or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
- (a.) Undergoing pains, trails or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
- (a.) Expectant with calmness or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
- (v.t.) To compose, to calm.
- (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
- (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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