Pa"tient, n. 1. ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a
passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often
involves the agent and the patient.
Gov. of Tongue.
2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to
physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever.
Sir P. Sidney.
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.
Pa"tient, v. t. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam."
Shak.
Pa"tient*ly, adv. In a patient manner. Cowper.
{ Pat"in (?), Pat"ine }, n. A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of
bright gold." Shak.
Pat"ina (?), n. [It., fr. L. patina a dish, a pan, a kind of cake. Cf.
Paten.] 1. A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
2. (Fine Arts) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of
art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins,
and medals. Fairholt.
||Pa"ti*o (p‰"t*), n. [Sp., a court] (Metal) A paved yard or floor
||where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc.,
||are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
The patio process is used to reduce silver ores by amalgamation.
Pat"ly (?), adv. Fitly; seasonably. Barrow.
Pat"ness, n. Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness;
convenience.
The description with equal patness may suit both.
Barrow.
Pa`tois" (?), n. [F.] A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a
provincial form of speech.
The jargon and patois of several provinces.
Sir T. Browne.
Pa*tonce" (?), a. [Cf. F. patte d'once paw of an ounce.] (Her.) Having
the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a
cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.
Pa"tri*al (?), a. [L. patria fatherland, country, fr. pater father.]
(Lat. Gram.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an
inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. -- n. A patrial
noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial
nouns, or patrials. Andrews.
Pa"tri*arch (?), n. [F. patriarche, L. patriarcha, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;
lineage, especially on the father's side, race; &?; father + &?; a
leader, chief, fr. &?; to lead, rule. See Father, Archaic.] 1. The
father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants
by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient
history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived
before the time of Moses.
2. (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) A dignitary superior to the order of
archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of
Antioch.