2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; — correlative to physician or nurse. Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney. 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.
PATIENT
Pa"tient, v. t.
Defn: To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." Shak.
PATIENTLY
Pa"tient*ly, adv.
Defn: In a patient manner. Cowper.
PATIN; PATINE
Pat"in, Pat"ine, n.
Defn: A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." Shak.
PATINA
Pat"ina, n. Etym: [It., fr. L. patina a dish, a pan, a kind of cake.
Cf. Paten.]
1. A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
2. (Fine Arts)