n. See Pattee. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. paqhmatiko`s, fr. pa`qhma a suffering, paqei^n, to suffer. ] Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [ R. ] Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patheticus, Gr. paqhtiko`s, fr. paqei^n, pa`schein, to suffer: cf. F. pathétique. See Pathos. ] 1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. “Pathetic action.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. --
Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. --
The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pathetic. [ R. ] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pathétisme. ] See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland. [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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