patiencen.1int.
/ˈpeɪʃns/, U.S. /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)ns/ 1. † g. Anatomy. muscle of patience n. [after post-classical Latin musculus patientiae (1666 or earlier)] the levator muscle of the scapula. Obsolete.
a. The calm, uncomplaining endurance of pain, affliction, inconvenience, etc.; the capacity for such endurance.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun]
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tholemodec1000
tholemodenessc1000
tholeburdnessa1050
patience?c1225
sustenancea1425
sustentationa1425
supportationa1438
bearing1496
patientnessa1500
supporture1609
bearance1611
uncomplainingness1877
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 138 To þe uttere fondunge bihoueð pacience [c1230 Corpus patience]. þet is þolemodschip.
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 426 (MED) In ȝoure pacience [v.r. suffrance] ȝe shulleþ ȝoure soules wytie.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 33 (MED) Ase he ne may no þing bere be boȝsamnesse, he ne may þolye be paciense.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 45 (MED) Pouerte and pacyence arn nedes playferes.
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Hymns to Virgin & Christ (1867) 80 (MED) Praie we for us silf..Þat god sende us paciens in oure olde age!
1553 Duke of Northumberland in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 22 God grant me pacyence to endure.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. i. 126 Glo.:..How hath your Lordship brookt imprisonment? Hast.: With patience (noble Lord) as prisoners must. View more context for this quotation
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. vi. f. 47v Base and drudging Offices, which yet they endured with admirable patience.
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man ii. §5. 36 Patience..is nothing else, but a willing and quiet yielding to whatever afflictions it pleases God to lay upon us.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 310 They promis'd faithfully to bear their Confinement with Patience.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 339 That thus We may with patience bear our moderate ills.
1849 M. Arnold To Gipsy Child 13 Drugging pain by patience.
1868 A. C. Swinburne W. Blake 63 He endured all the secret slights and wants..with a most high patience.
1941 S. D. Stirk Prussian Spirit xii. 200 He bore his sufferings with patience and submissiveness.
1999 Providence Jrnl.-Bull. (Rhode Island) (Nexis) 11 July (Lifestyles section) 9 l That ordeal steeled her endurance, deepened her patience.
b. Forbearance or long-suffering under provocation; esp. tolerance of the faults or limitations of other people.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance
mercya1225
tholea1325
patiencyc1350
patiencea1382
abidingc1384
sustentationc1384
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tolerancya1556
digesture1567
toleration1582
acceptance1586
forbearance1599
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digestion1653
tolerance1765
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Jer. xv. 15 Wile þou not, in þi pacience, take me.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. 99 (MED) Þere parfit treuthe and pouere herte is and pacience of tonge, Þere is charitee.
c1434 J. Drury Eng. Writings in Speculum (1934) 9 76 (MED) Envie distroyit charite; wrethe, paciens.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 69 He shold the better haue pacience and pyte on Reynart.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vii. sig. Qivv Women..takynge..comforte to persuade swetely their husbandes to mercy and pacience.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 5 Here will be an old abusing of Gods patience, and the Kings English.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §13 The patience and long-suffering of God, leading men to repentance.
1722 New-England Courant 2 Apr. I will not abuse your Patience with a tedious Recital of all the frivolous Accidents of my Life.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 104 Her account was so lame and imperfect, that Mrs. Mourtray lost all patience.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 93 His discipular patience when Rousseau told him that his verses were poor,..is a little uncommon in a prince.
1903 H. Keller Story of my Life i. vi. 31 I had made many mistakes, and Miss Sullivan had pointed them out again and again with gentle patience.
1991 Dædalus Summer 107 He had no patience for what he viewed as the obscurantist and archaic influence of organized religion.
c. Calm, self-possessed waiting.The earlier interpretation of Luke 21:19, exemplified in quot. c1384, implies an inner attitude, in contrast with that of more recent Biblical translations, e.g. ‘By your endurance you will gain your lives’ (New RSV).
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > patience in waiting
patiencec1384
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xxi. 19 In ȝoure pacience ȝe schulen welde ȝoure soulis [1526 Tyndale, With your pacience possesse your soules].
1475 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 485 I beseche yowe off pacyence tyll the begynnyng off the next yeere.
c1480 (a1400) St. Andrew 405 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 75 Ȝet wil I with paciens a quhil here þe.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) James v. 7 The husbande man wayteþ for the precious frute offe the erth, and hath long pacience there vppon, vntill he receave the yerly and the latter rayne.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 153 He had not the patience to expect a present, but demanded one.
1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) II. 401 Their ambassador..was put to the patience of staying an hower and a halfe..before he was called in to his highnes.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. ix. 30 The very first Opportunity, my Dear, (have but patience) you shall be my Wife.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 87 Behold the fruits of eleven years patience.
1866 J. Ruskin Ethics of Dust iv. 61 Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude,—and the rarest, too.
1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xv. 317 Considering with what reptilious patience she had waited.
1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 25/3 The young runner's characteristic patience gave way to impetuousness.
d. The quality or virtue of patience personified.Now chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (see quot. a1616).
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > personified
patiencea1393
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 1098 (MED) Contek..Folhast hath to his Chamberlein, Be whos conseil al unavised Is Pacience most despised.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 29 Pacience in þe paleis stode in pilgrymes clothes, And preyde mete for charite.
1509 S. Hawes Pastyme of Pleasure (de Worde) xx. sig. L.iiiiv To wofull creatures she is goodly leche With her good syster called pacyence.
1598 S. Brandon Tragicomoedi of Vertuous Octauia ii Patience is a prince and must not yeeld.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 114 She sate like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at greefe. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 22 Two little Children... The name of the eldest was Passion, and of the other Patience; Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. View more context for this quotation
1786 J. Cobb Strangers at Home i. 11 Patience is a bad physician; he has worn me to a skeleton already.
1858 L. M. Alcott Let. Nov. (1889) v. 108 So I still wait like Patience on a hard chair, smiling at an inkstand.
1884 W. E. Henley & R. L. Stevenson Beau Austin in Three Plays i. ii I cannot away with your pale cheeks and that Patience-on-a-Monument kind of look.
a1930 R. Bridges Poor Poll in Poet. Wks. (1936) i. 509 You sit moping like patience on a perch.
1998 J. Cahill Meadowlands (HBO TV shooting script) 21 in Sopranos 1st Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) I'm sitting here like..patience on a monument waiting for discipline to be handed down.
e. Constancy or diligence in work, exertion, or effort; perseverance.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun]
beleaving1340
continuationc1374
improbityc1380
perseveringc1380
perseverancec1384
continuancec1405
perseverationa1500
patience1517
constancea1533
importunity1533
persistence1546
persisting1576
going-on1578
persistency1600
constancy1623
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rubbing shift1675
doggedness1824
stick-to-itiveness1859
persistiveness1864
holdfastness1869
continuativeness1881
stick-to-itness1881
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 55 The same nyght, with grett Diffyculty and moche paciens, we war Delivered a borde into ower Shippe.
1637 Sidney State Papers (Latham) II. 509 Persons that will have the patience to understand and press with art and assiduousness.
1767 W. Harte Eulogius in Amaranth 165 He learnt with patience, and with meekness taught.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ii. 190 We..in the fight opposed..to the exasperate patience of the foe, Desperate endurance.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1874) iii. xix. 565 Genius has been declared by a great authority to be patience; and patience, in this sense, means unflinching, undaunted perseverance.
1894 Outing 24 21/2 To take the spiling for shaping the planks, care and patience are required.
1947 Sci. News 4 37 The patience in collecting and sifting evidence that goes on steadily from the moment a body is found.
1995 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) July 7 (caption) The long application of patience and skill is worth it.
f. As int. ‘Be patient’; ‘have patience’.
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1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. F3 Arthur: What meaneth this? Good Hubert plead the case. Hubert: Patience yong Lord, and listen words of woe.
1675 Mistaken Husband iv. iv. 44 No, Neighbour, patience, I will give him leave to speak.
1691 R. Ames Siege & Surrender of Mons iii. ii. 22 Patience, Daughters, Patience. 'Tis Heaven's High Pleasure, and there's no contending.
1757 C. Arnold Poems Several Occasions 192 Patience, good Sir! don't testy be.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Concl. 175 This..world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart. Patience! Give it time To learn its limbs.
1887 F. W. L. Adams Poet. Wks. II. 45 Patience, patience, poor fool!
1912 W. Canton Invisible Playmate 25 Patience, woman dear! Don't you hear your Crummie lowing in the lane?
1970 A. K. Armah Fragments iv. 127 ‘Patience,’ Kwesi said, peeling off the white packaging.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > [noun] > muscles of shoulder
subscapularis1615
supraspinatus muscle1615
subscapular muscle1634
under-blade-lurker1683
muscle of patience1728
deltoid1740
deltoid muscle1741
infraspinatus1855
prescapular1890
trachelo-acromial1891
infraspinator1897
1728 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Patientiæ musculus (in Anatomy) the Muscle of Patience, so called from the great Service of it in Labour, and is the same as Levator Scapulæ.
1820 R. Hooper Med. Dict. (ed. 4) 580/2 Musculus patientiæ, see Levator scapulæ.]
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun]
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willOE
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licence1362
grace1389
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libertyc1425
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favour1574
beleve1575
permittance1580
withgate1599
passage1622
sufferage1622
attolerance1676
sanction1738
permiss-
society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [phrase] > by permission of
by your leavec1330
with your leavea1400
under the reverence of1533
by (also with) (a person's) patience1588
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 1222 (MED) To write how þei wrouȝt My purpose is..Vnder support of ȝoure pacience.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 664 (MED) This litel schort dyte..Vnder support of your pacyence, Yeveth example hornes to cast away.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. I8 And thus much with their patience be it spoken briefly hereof.
1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶2v By your patience be it spoken.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 3 I can goe no further, Sir,..by your patience, I needes must rest me. View more context for this quotation
1695 E. Ravenscroft Canterbury Guests v. v Gentlemen with your patience, I'll speak two words aside to my Brother.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > long-suffering
sufferancea1300
sufferinga1340
longanimityc1400
long-sufferancec1405
long-suffering1496
patiencec1500
endurance1600
enduring1603
endurementa1716
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cxciv Pray the reder to haue pacience Of thy defaute.
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. ciijv Why setteth he not his eyes on the thankes geuynge for that pleasure and on the pacience of other displeasures?
1655 R. Baillie Disswasive Vindic. 57 (margin) One ground of my patience of M. Ts. maledicency.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 464 Patience of toil, and love of virtue fails.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 44/1 That patience of hunger, and every kind of hardship.
1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xx. 309 Their patience of heat without injury, their superior wind, fit them better in this and the more southern climates.
4. Cards. Any of various games for one player in which the object is to arrange cards turned up at random into a specified systematic order; = solitaire n. 3(a). Also: an adaptation of such a game for more than one player.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun]
solitaire1746
solitary1798
patience1822
1801 C. Smith Writing Desk ii. v. 30 I should be obliged to fetch the cards for you to play ‘Grande Patience’.]
1822 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 220 We were occupied all yesterday evening with conjuring tricks and patiences of every kind.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. i. 26 Playing a complicated kind of Patience with a ragged pack of cards.
1901 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 873/1 This is a difficult Patience to get; its solution depends on watchfulness and luck.
1953 A. Christie Pocket Full of Rye viii. 52 Miss Ramsbottom continued with her patience... ‘Red seven on black eight. Now I can move up the King.’
1993 Newfoundland Sportsman Winter 36/3 She got the piles from sitting on the tent floor playing a game of patience.
Phrases
(In sense 1.) P1. to have patience
a. to have patience with (also †in, toward): to have or show forbearance or tolerance towards, bear with (a person).
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)] > bear with or tolerate
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tholec950
bearOE
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suffer1340
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to have patience with (also in, toward)c1384
supportc1384
to sit with ——c1400
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acceptc1405
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brook1530
well away1533
to bear with —1538
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to comport with1565
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abrook1594
to come away1594
to take up with1609
swallow1611
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to pack up1624
concocta1627
to set down bya1630
to take with ——1632
tolerate1646
brook1658
stomach1677
pouch1819
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xviii. 26 Haue pacience in me and alle thingis I shal ȝeelde to thee.
a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 55 (MED) Many sich men..preien God of his grace to have pacience in hem.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Thess. v. 14 Forbeare the weake, have continuall pacience towarde alle men.
1568 Bible (Bishops') Ecclus. iii. 15 And yf his vnderstandyng fayle, haue patience with hym.
1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. 41 I wish you wou'd..have a little more patience with me, that I might instruct you a little better.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. xxii. 130 Who can have patience with such fellows?
1816 J. Austen Emma 453 Emma could have wished Mrs. Elton elsewhere; but she was in a humour to have patience with every body.
1916 G. O'Keeffe Let. Feb. in G. O'Keeffe & A. Pollitzer Lovingly, Georgia (1990) 141 He is queerly made—We all are—so please have patience with him.
1999 Linedancer Jan. 79/1 Anne has patience with all her newcomers and her experienced dancers join us in dancing the Electric Slide.
b. have patience: ‘be patient’.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (intransitive)] > wait patiently
have patience1490
to hang on1939
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) i. 58 My dere moder, haue a lytyll pacyence [Fr. ayez vng peu de pacience].
a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens ii. sig. e.ii I pray you euerychone Haue pacyens for thay come a none.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. G2 Haue patience Bel-imperia, heare the rest.
a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iv. i. 80 Have patience woman, I' have bin too longe a grizell.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy iii. ii Have patience, and it shall be done.
1770 J. Armstrong Forced Marriage ii. iii. 41 Let time and nature work. Have patience.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) Concl. 174 ‘Have patience,’ I replied, ‘ourselves are full Of social wrong.’
1901 R. Kipling Kim vi. 157 Have patience, child. All Pathans are not faithless.
1989 D. Dunnett Race of Scorpions (BNC) 448 Have patience. Let it cool.
c. to have no patience with: to be unable to tolerate; to be irritated by.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > be or become irritated [verb (intransitive)]
enchafec1380
fume and chafec1522
chafe1525
to fret and fume1551
rankle1582
to lose patience, one's temper1622
pique1664
to have no patience with1682
ruffle1719
to be out of the way (with)1740
echinate1792
nettle1810
to get one's dander up1831
to set up one's jay-feathers1880
hackle1935
to get off one's bike1939
1682 T. Shadwell Lancashire-witches iii. 34 I have no patience with this Fool.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lix. 215 I have no patience with the foolish duncical dog.
1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. ix. 366 I hate daintiness; especially in boys. I have no great patience with it.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxvi. 244 I have no patience with the Colonel.
1914 J. London Let. 25 June (1966) 425 I have no patience with fly-by-night philosophers such as Bergson.
1986 D. Madden Hidden Symptoms (1988) 38 He had no patience with her saints, her statues, her novenas.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > endure patiently [verb (transitive)]
takec1175
dure1297
suffer1297
eata1382
to take in patiencec1385
to take awortha1387
endure1477
to go through ——1535
pocket1589
to sit down1589
hack1936
c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1084 Take al in pacience Oure prisoun, for it may noon oother be.
c1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars 40 When her deyned to cast on hym her ye, He tok in pacience to lyve or dye.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxiii To the good lorde I wyll retourne eftesoone..And take in pacience all that may be thy wyll.
1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 2053 in Wks. (1931) II. 116 Is no remeid bot tak in pacience.
1609 A. Gardyne Garden Grave & Godlie Flowres sig. G3 Take in patience this, Thy husbands death.
1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon v. 57 If Amphitryon takes the favour of Jupiter in patience, as from a God, he's a good Heathen.
P3. out of patience: in or into a state of anger or impatience (with a person or thing). Also: no longer patient; impatient.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [adjective] > so as no longer to have patience
out of patience1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 431/2 I angre, I chafe or bringe out of pacience.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 341 Archias beeyng throughly out of pacience thretened to pull hym parforce out of the temple.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 34 Which put the Vizier so out of Patience.
1758 J. Jortin Life Erasmus I. 170/1 Colet was out of patience to see those silly fopperies.
1805 M. G. Lewis tr. J. H. D. Zschokke Bravo of Venice ii. iv. 187 [He] was out of all patience with himself.
a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan xxiv, in Wks. (1954) VI. 288 Here she pretended to cry. I was out of patience with her.
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 368/2 I'm all out of patience with you, Flora... You'll make yourself sick.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Jan. 16/1 I got out of patience with Jeff, too. He had such rose-colored halos on his womenfolks.
1989 L. Clarke Chymical Wedding (BNC) 292 Suddenly he was out of all patience.
2003 Express (Nexis) 13 Mar. 12 The White House is almost out of patience with diplomacy.
patience perforce n. patience exercised when there is no alternative. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > upon compulsion
patience perforce1569
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 9 Perfors tak paciens And dre thy destany.]
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 746 She being..without comfort of defenders, by pacience perforce, was compelled to suffer and susteyne.
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 334 Content thy selfe with patience perforce.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. F4 Heres patience perforce, He needs must trot a foot that tyres his horsse.
1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 130 Patience perforce is a medicine for a mad dog.
1706 T. D'Urfey Wonders in Sun i. ii. 27 Patience perforce, sweet Angel.
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1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lv. 188 But, my patience, when they did adjourn, such a hubbub I guess you never see.
1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. vii. 166 My patience! what's the matter with the girl.
a1897 T. E. Brown I Betsy Lee in Coll. Poems (1900) 124 Who's at the helm!.. With all this criss-crossin' and herrin'-bonin'! My patience!
Compounds
C1. (In sense 1.)
patience-sapping adj.
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1988 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Mar. Mr Mitterand's patience-sapping operation.
2002 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 23 Mar. b1 A patience-sapping one-hour commute from Strongsville to Warrensville Heights.
patience-trying adj.
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1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe II. i. 5 He..proceeded to undo the endless fastenings of the hall-door, a very patience-trying occupation.
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 119 It was tiresome, patience-trying work.
2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Apr. 60/2 It's ambitious and unorthodox but patience-trying too—an unshapely recording of variations on rock's exploratory past.
C2. (In sense 4.)
patience board n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun] > board
patience board1907
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 380/1 Patience Board With Cards.
1998 Hist. Today (Nexis) Feb. 30 The wooden Chastleton Patience Board that she used and in which her packs of cards were stored is on the table in the white parlour.
patience card n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun] > cards
patience card1890
patience pack1901
1890 A. Lang Life Sir S. Northcote I. 169 It is improbable that the Royal Clemency provided Cardinal Balue with a pack of Patience cards.
1984 A. Elliot On Appian Way in My Country (1989) 111 The man cuts rounds, translucent they're so fine, And pats them down like patience cards in line.
patience case n.
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1904 N.E.D. at Patience sb. Patience case.
patience pack n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun] > cards
patience card1890
patience pack1901
1901 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 872/1 It is much more satisfactory to use a regular Patience pack than to play with ordinary cards.
1926 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 89 30 The court cards were removed from two patience packs.
patience player n.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 2/1 Always, like a skilful patience player, leave vacancies for last chances.
1996 C. Higson Getting Rid of Mr Kitchen xiv. 148 If the cards fall a certain way even the best patience player in the world won't be able to finish the game.
patience table n.
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1897 Private Life of Queen x. 83 The very clever ‘Patience Table’ invented some years ago by Lady Adelaide Cadogan.
1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 25 May 24 A Georgian oak settle and a satin wood patience table.
C3.
patience game n. (a) a game of patience; (b) figurative an activity, procedure, etc., which requires one to wait patiently; a waiting game.
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1890 ‘Cavendish’ Patience Games 14 Patience Games require the player to obtain complete sequences by dealing, moving, or taking the cards of the pack in accordance with certain Rules.
1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xviii. 200 She played all sorts of patience games from simple single-pack patiences like Miss Milligan..to complicated double-pack games.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Feb. m1 What all this amounts to is playing time... And I'm playing the patience game.
2001 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 22 Mar. w8 The flea market trade can quickly degenerate into a drawn-out patience-game.
patience plant n. an impatiens; esp. busy Lizzie, Impatiens walleriana, and its cultivars.
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1946 M. Free All about House Plants xvii. 161 The names Patience Plant and Patient Lucy are interesting examples of how the original meaning of a plant name can be reversed. The vernacular names are derived from the botanical name Impatiens,..referring to the sudden bursting of the seed pods.
2001 National Post (Canada) 26 May n6/6 Impatiens walleriana Canadiana Series (Busy Lizzie, Patience Plant)... These gorgeous plants have the largest flowers.
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patiencen.2
/ˈpeɪʃns/, U.S. /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)ns/ 1. = patience dock n. 2. Also called garden patience, herb patience, herb of patience.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies
red dockeOE
dockc1000
rhubarbc1390
docken1423
patience?a1425
round dock1526
Rumex1565
wild patience1578
bloody dock1597
monk's rhubarb1597
Welsh sorrel1640
butterdock1688
mountain rhapontic1728
mountain sorrel1753
Rheum1753
redshank1810
patience dock1816
fiddle-dock1823
canaigre1868
nettle-docken1891
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 196 Lappacium latum, paciencia, pacience, h. & d.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 69 (MED) Take Betus and Borage..Violette, Malvis, parsle, betayn, pacience, þe white of the lekes, [etc.].
a1543 in A. Amherst Hist. Gardening in Eng. (1896) 75 (MED) Herbys necessary for a gardyn..Pacyence.
1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. xi. sig. Cv Let pacience growe in your gardein alwaie.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 314 The Monkes Rubarbe is called in Latine Rumex satiuus, and Patientia, or Patience, which worde is borrowed of the French, who call this herbe Pacience.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Lapanthum Long-leav'd Garden Dock, or Patience.
1802 J. Drayton View S.-Carolina 67 One of these [species of dock] called patience, is a grateful vegetable when young, not inferior to spinach.
1886 G. Nicholson Illustr. Dict. Gardening Patience or Herb Patience,..a hardy perennial..the leaves of which were formerly much used in the place of Spinach.
1972 Y. Lovelock Veg. Bk. i. 218 The spinach dock..is used in the early spring..and goes by such names as patience and patient dock.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. ix. 559 The third kind is called..in Latine, Lapathum syluestre, that is to say Wilde Docke, or Patience [Fr. Patience, Du. Patientie].
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Lapato The wild Dock or Patience.
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 44 The Leaves are like enough those of Wild Patience.
1872 J. Rudolphy Pharmaceut. Directory (ed. 2) 94 Rumex obtusifolius. Wild Patience root.
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patiencev.
/ˈpeɪʃns/, U.S. /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)ns/ rare.† 2. intransitive. To play patience. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
1. † b. transitive. To have or exercise patience with; (reflexive) to be patient. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To have or exercise patience.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (intransitive)]
to take (something) as it comesc1350
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patience1596
to turn the buckle of the girdle1606
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. D2 To warne the blue-coate Corrector when he should patience and surcease.
1943 B. Robertson Red Hills & Cotton x. 253 I been here God knows how long—just patiencing along.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > be patient [verb (reflexive)]
support1591
patience1605
to comport with1675
1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley sig. A2v Patience but your selfe awhile.
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1835 New Monthly Mag. July 337 I had ‘swam on a gondola’ at Venice, and ‘patienced’ in a punt at Putney.
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