a. Assenting. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. bis twice + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] Dividing into two parts. -- n. A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., good Christian. ] A name given to several kinds of pears. See Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. caecutire to be blind, fr. caecus blind. ] Partial blindness, or a tendency to blindness. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. compatients, p. pr. of compati. See Compassion. ] Suffering or enduring together. [ Obs. ] Sir G. Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consentients, p. pr. See Consent. ] Agreeing in mind; accordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perceiving together. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discutiens, p. pr. of discutere. See Discuss. ] (Med.) Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n. An agent (as a medicinal application) which serves to disperse morbid matter. “Foment with discutiens.” Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. dissentiens, p. pr. of dissentire. See Dissent, v. i. ] Disagreeing; declaring dissent; dissenting. -- n. One who dissents. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ OE. impacience, F. impatience, fr. L. impatientia. ] The quality of being impatient; lack of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. [ 1913 Webster ]

I then, . . .
Out of my grief and my impatience,
Answered neglectingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With huge impatience he inly swelt
More for great sorrow that he could not pass,
Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impatience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., impatient. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. impacient, F. impatient, fr. L. impatiens; pref. im- not + patiens patient. See Patient. ] 1. Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not to be borne; unendurable. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies. Shak.

Syn. -- Restless; uneasy; changeable; hot; eager; fretful; intolerant; passionate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is impatient. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an impatient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The state or quality of being insentient; lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not sentient; not having perception, or the power of perception; devoid of feeling, consciousness and animation; inanimate; as, insentient stone. Opposite of sentient. [ wns=1+3 ]
Syn. -- inanimate, insensate. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

The . . . attributes of an insentient, inert substance. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

But there can be nothing like to this sensation in the rose, because it is insentient. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. incapable of sensation.
Syn. -- insensate, insensible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + L. sitiens, p. pr. of sitire to be thirsty, fr. sitis thirst. ] Freedom from thirst. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. investiens, p. pr. of investire. ] Covering; clothing. [ R. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Omni- + patient. ] Capable of enduring all things. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medical patient who receives treatment at a hospital, especially in an emergency room, but is not admitted to stay overnight. Distinguished from inpatient, who is assigned to a room to reside there while being treated. [ PJC ]

a. Patient to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 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. 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 ]

a. [ F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. Pathos, Passion. ] 1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Forbearing; long-suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To compose, to calm. [ Obs. ] “Patient yourself, madam.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a patient manner. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. percutiens, p. pr. of percutere. See Percuss. ] Striking; having the power of striking. -- n. That which strikes, or has power to strike. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praesentiens, p. pr. of praesentire to perceive beforehand; prae before + sentire to feel. ] Feeling or perceiving beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. quoties how often, how many times, fr. quot how many. See Quota. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arith.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Higher Alg.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Sentient, Sentence. ] The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense. ] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sentient or perceptive way. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. superpartiens; super over + partiens, p. pr. of partire to divide. ] (Math.) Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is more than a unit, as that of 3 to 5, or 7 to 10. [ Obs. ] Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chinese, square of heavenly peace. ] a large plaza in Beijing, China. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ Sp., prop., tent, awning. ] In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. transfiguratio: cf. transfiguration. ] 1. A change of form or appearance; especially, the supernatural change in the personal appearance of our Savior on the mount. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Tripartite. ] (Arith.) Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactly divides another into three parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Impatience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impatient. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

See obnoxious.
See observable.
See observant.
See obstructive.
See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
See ordinary.
See ordinate.
See original.
See ornamental.
See orthodox.
See ostentatious.
See pacifiable.
See pacific.
See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
See pardonable.
See partable.
See participant.
See passionate.
See pastoral.
See pathetic.
See patriotic.
See peaceable.
See peaceful.
See pedantic.
See perceivable.
See perceptible.
See perilous.
See permanent.
See personable.
See perspirable.
See persuadable.
See persuasive.
See philanthropic.
See philosophic.
See philosophical.
See physical.
See picturesque.
See pierceable.
See pitiful.
See plain.
See plausible.
See plausive.
See pleadable.
See pleasurable.
See pliable.
See pliant.
See plumb.
See poetic.
See poetical.
See political.
See popular.
See populous.
See portable.
See potable.
See precarious.
See precise.
See pregnant.
See prejudicate.
See prelatical.
See premeditable.
See presentable.
See preservable.
See presumptuous.
See pretentious.
See pretty.
See prevalent.
See priestly.
See primitive.
See princely.
See procurable.
See producible.
See productive.
See professional.
See profitable.
See prolific.
See pronounceable.
See prophetic.
See propitious.
See proportionable.
See proportionate.
See prosperous.
See provable.
See punctilious.
See punctual.
See punishable.
See pure.
See qualifiable.
See quenchable.
See quiet.
See rational.
See readable.
See reasonable.
See recallable.
See reclaimable.
See recognizable.
See reconcilable.
See recoverable.
See recumbent.
See reformable.
See refusable.
See regardable.
See regardant.
See relative.
See relievable.
See reluctant.
See remarkable.
See remediable.
See rememberable.
See remorseful.
See removable.
See remunerative.
See repairable.
See repealable.
See repentant.
See reprovable.
See repugnant.
See requisite.
See requitable.
See resolvable.
See respectable.
See restful.
See retentive.
See returnable.
See revengeful.
See ridable.
See ridiculous.
See rightful.
See romantic.
See rough.
See royal.
See ruinable.
See ruly.
See sacrificial.
See safe.
See sage.
See sailable.
See salable.
See sane.
See sanguine.
See sanitary.
See satisfactory.
See satisfiable.
See saturable.
See savory.
See scalable.
See scaly.
See scholarly.
See scholastic.
See scientific.
See scornful.
See scriptural.
See sculptural.
See seaworthy.
See sectarian.
See secular.
See sedentary.
See selfish.
See sentient.
See sentimental.
See serviceable.
See severe.
See shamefaced.
See shamefast.
See shapely.
See shy.
See sick.
See sicker.
See sightly.
See simple.
See sinewy.
See sizable.
See sleek.
See slumberous.
See sly.
See smooth.
See smotherable.
See smutty.
See sober.
See sociable.
See social.
See solemn.
See soliciutous.
See solvable.
See speakable.
See speedy.
See spiritual.
See spontaneous.
See sportful.
See sportsmanlike.
See statutable.
See steadfast.
See steady.
See stormy.
See stout.
See strong.
See subduable.
See subject.
See submissive.
See subordinate.
See substantial.
See successive.
See succorable.
See suggestive.
See suitable.
See sunny.
See superfluous.
See supple.
See sure.
See surpassable.
See susceptible.
See suspect.
See suspectable.
See suspicious.
See sustainable.
See sweet.
See syllogistical.
See symbolic.
See sympathetic.
See systematic.
See tamable.
See tame.
See teachable.
See technical.
See tellable.
See tenable.
See tender.
See terrestrial.
See terrific.
See thankful.
See theological.
See thinkable.
See thirsty.
See thorny.
See thoughtful.
See tidy.
See tillable.
See toothsome.
See touchable.
See traceable.
See tractable.
See tragic.
See tranquil.
See transferable.
See translatable.
See transmutable.
See transparent.
See transpassable.
See traversable.
See tremulous.
See trimphant.
See trustworthy.
See trusty.
See tumultous.
See tunable.
See uniform.
See usable.
See useful.
See vanquishable.
See variant.
See venerable.
See venomous.
See veracious.
See verdant.
See veritable.
See vigilant.
See vigorous.
See virtuous.
See vital.
See vitrifiable.
See vocal.
See voidable.
See voluptuous.
See voyageable.
See vulgar.
See walkable.
See warlike.
See watchful.
See watery.
See wealthy.
See wearable.
See weary.
See welcome.
See wet.
See wholesome.
See wieldsome.
See willful.
See wily.
See witty.
See womanly.
See workable.
See workmanlike.
See worldly.
See worshipful.
See wrathful.
See writable.
See zealous.
------ and the like.
[ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Volition. ] Exercising the will; acting from choice; willing, or having power to will. “What I do, I do volitient, not obedient.” Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]