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]

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