The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

patience
    n 1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn:
         patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant:
         impatience]
    2: a card game played by one person [syn: solitaire,
       patience]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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



The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

PATIENCE, n.  A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.