patience
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetenceSynonyms: forbearancelonganimity
- a card game played by one personSynonyms: solitaire
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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.
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
3.A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine. [1913 Webster]
4.(Zool.) (a) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus. (b) The European bullfinch. [1913 Webster]
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). [1913 Webster]