Patience \Pa"tience\ (p[=a]"shens), 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.
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Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience
and long-suffering. --Col. i. 11.
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I must have patience to endure the load. --Shak.
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Who hath learned lowliness
From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.
--Keble.
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2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for
something due or hoped for; forbearance.
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Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
--Matt. xviii.
29.
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3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
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He learned with patience, and with meekness taught.
--Harte.
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4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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They stay upon your patience. --Shak.
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5. (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex Patientia), less common in
America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
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6. (Card Playing) Solitaire.
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Syn: Patience, Resignation.
Usage: 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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Monk \Monk\, n. [AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. ?, fr.
mo`nos alone. Cf. Monachism.]
1. A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of
the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a
religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and
bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and
poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." --Chaucer.
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Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in
the substantial vows of religion; but in other
respects monks and regulars differ; for that
regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so
strict a rule of life as monks are. --Ayliffe.
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2. (Print.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused
by the ink not being properly distributed. It is
distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a
deficiency of ink.
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3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the
powder hose or train of a mine.
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4. (Zool.)
(a) A South American monkey ({Pithecia monachus); also
applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
(b) The European bullfinch.
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Monk bat (Zool.), a South American and West Indian bat
({Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live
in communities by themselves.
Monk bird(Zool.), the friar bird.
Monk seal (Zool.), a species of seal ({Monachus
albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean
Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.
Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called
patience ({Rumex Patientia).
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
patience
n 1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: forbearance,
longanimity] [ant: impatience]
2: a card game played by one person [syn: solitaire]
WordNet (r) 2.0
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "patience":
acceptance, application, assiduity, assiduousness, ataraxia,
ataraxy, benevolence, bovinity, bulldog tenacity, calmness,
charitableness, charity, clemency, clementness, compassion,
composure, concentration, condonation, constancy, cool,
determination, diligence, dispassion, dispassionateness, disregard,
dogged perseverance, doggedness, dullness, easiness, easy temper,
easygoingness, endurance, engrossment, equanimity, even temper,
fidelity, firmness, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness,
forgivingness, fortitude, generousness, gentleness, good temper,
humaneness, humanity, impassiveness, impassivity, imperturbability,
imperturbableness, indefatigability, indulgence, industriousness,
industry, inexcitability, inexcitableness, inirritability,
insistence, insistency, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency,
lenientness, lenity, long-suffering, longanimity, loyalty,
magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderateness,
nonresistance, obstinacy, overlooking, passiveness,
patience of Job, patientness, permanence, permissiveness,
perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness,
pertinacity, pity, plodding, plugging, preoccupation,
relentlessness, resignation, resolution, resolve, restraint,
sedulity, sedulousness, self-control, serenity, single-mindedness,
singleness of purpose, slogging, smooth temper, softness,
stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness,
stick-to-itiveness, stoicism, stolidity, stubbornness, submission,
submissiveness, sufferance, suffering, tenaciousness, tenacity,
tenderness, tirelessness, tolerance, toleration, uncomplainingness,
unirritableness, unnervousness, unpassionateness, unremittingness,
unrevengefulness, unswerving attention
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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