[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

patient \pa"tient\ p=a"shent, 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
see also:
pathos passion 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

patient \pa"tient\, 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
see also:
in patient out patient 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

patient \pa"tient\, v. t.
   to compose, to calm. obs. "patient yourself, madam."
   --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

patient
     adj 1: enduring trying circumstances with even temper or
            characterized by such endurance; "a patient smile";
            "was patient with the children"; "an exact and patient
            scientist"; "please be patient" ant: impatient
     2: enduring without protest or complaint
     n 1: a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency
          patients has grown rapidly"
     2: the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is
        directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted
        by the verb in the clause syn: affected role, patient
        role
see also:
impatient affected role patient role 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

156 moby thesaurus words for "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

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