patient

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pa=tient
• COUNT in NET: 17 in 15 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses) (in NT : 12 in 10 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

patient, a. [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion.].

•  Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.  [1913 Webster]

  "Patient of severest toil and hardship."  [1913 Webster]
•  Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.  [1913 Webster]
•  Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.  [1913 Webster]

  "Whatever I have done is due to patient thought."  [1913 Webster]
•  Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.  [1913 Webster]

  "Not patient to expect the turns of fate."  [1913 Webster]
•  Forbearing; long-suffering.  [1913 Webster]

  "Be patient toward all men."  [1913 Webster]

patient, n. 

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.  [1913 Webster]

  "Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever."  [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.

patient, v. t. 

 To compose, to calm.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

patient, adj. & n.
--adj. having or showing patience.
--n. a person receiving or registered to receive medical treatment.

Derivative

patiently adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L patiens -entis pres. part. of pati suffer

THESAURUS

patient

Spartan, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, apoplectic, armed with patience, arthritic, assiduous, benevolent, bovine, case, charitable, clement, compassionate, compliant, conciliatory, constant, consumptive, continuing, determined, diligent, disciplined, dispassionate, dogged, dull, dyspeptic, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, epileptic, even-tempered, faithful, firm, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, guinea pig, humane, immutable, impassive, imperturbable, inalterable, incurable, indefatigable, indomitable, indulgent, industrious, inexcitable, inirritable, inpatient, insistent, invalid, invincible, kind, laboratory animal, lasting, lax, lenient, long-suffering, longanimous, loyal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, moderate, never-tiring, obstinate, outpatient, passive, patient as Job, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, philosophical, placable, plodding, plugging, preoccupied, rapt, relentless, resigned, resolute, resolved, rheumatic, sedulous, self-controlled, self-possessed, serene, shut-in, sick person, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, soft, sparing, spastic, stable, staunch, steadfast, steady, stoic, stoical, stolid, stubborn, subject, submissive, sufferer, tenacious, tender, terminal case, testee, the sick, tireless, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, unabating, unconquerable, undaunted, understanding, undiscouraged, undisturbable, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflappable, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unirritable, unnervous, unnodding, unpassionate, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unresentful, unrevengeful, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, unyielding, utterly attentive, valetudinarian, weariless

ROGET THESAURUS

patient

Disease

N disease, illness, sickness, ailing, all the ills that flesh is heir to, morbidity, morbosity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition, complaint, disorder, malady, distemper, distemperature, visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy, cachexia, atrophy, marasmus, indigestion, dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration, taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation, epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic, murrain, plague, pestilence, pox, sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil, pimple, wen, carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue, rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore, cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor, caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy, eruption, rash, breaking out, fever, temperature, calenture, inflammation, ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis, Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash, breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis, cholera, asphyxia, chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema, erysipelas, exanthem, exanthema, gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness, grip, grippe, influenza, flu, hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw, measles, mumps, polio, necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough, yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system, idiocy insanity, martyr to disease, cripple, the halt the lame and the blind, valetudinary, valetudinarian, invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber, pathology, etiology, nosology, anthrax, bighead, blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill, rinderpest, virus, bacterium, bacteria, DNA virus, RNA virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, CMV, human immunodefficiency virus, HIV, diseased, ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather, valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid, morbose, healthless, infirm, chlorotic, unbraced, drooping, flagging, lame, crippled, halting, morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered, rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core, withered, palsied, paralytic, dyspeptic, luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic, syntectic, syntectical, tabetic, varicose, touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping, hors de combat, weakly, weakened, decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health, cranky, in a bad way, in danger, prostrate, moribund, morbific epidemic, endemic, zymotic.

Inexcitability

N inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability, even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion, tolerance, patience, coolth, passiveness, hebetude, hebetation, impassibility, stupefaction, coolness, calmness, composure, placidity, indisturbance, imperturbation, sang froid, tranquility, serenity, quiet, quietude, peace of mind, mental calmness, staidness, gravity, sobriety, Quakerism, philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper, self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins, presence of mind, submission, resignation, sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance, longanimity, fortitude, patience of Job, patience on a monument, patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill', moderation, repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling, restraint, tranquillization, inexcitable, unexcitable, imperturbable, unsusceptible, unpassionate, dispassionate, cold-blooded, irritable, enduring, stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed, sober, sober minded, grave, sober as a judge, grave as a judge, sedate, demure, cool-headed, easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm, quiet as a mouse, tranquil, serene, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, undemonstrative, temperate, composed, collected, unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned, unoffended, unresisting, meek, tolerant, patient, patient as Job, submissive, tame, content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike, gentle as a lamb, suaviter in modo, mild as mothers milk, soft as peppermint, armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering, like patience on a monument smiling at grief, aequo animo, in cold blood, more in sorrow than in anger, Int, patience!, and shuffle the cards, cool calm and collected, keep calm in the midst of a storm, adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspec, quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes, they also serve who only stand and wait.