Party – Patronize

Party

P'ARTY, noun [Latin pars. See Part.]

1. A number of persons united in opinion or design, in opposition to others in the community. It differs from faction, in implying a less dishonorable association, or more justifiable designs. Parties exist in all governments; and free governments are the hot-beds of party Formerly, the political parties in England were called whigs and tories.

2. One of two litigants; the plaintiff or defendant in a lawsuit.

The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Exodus 22:1.

3. One concerned or interested in an affair. This man was not a party to the trespass or affray. He is not a party to the contract or agreement.

4. Side; persons engaged against each other.

The peace both parties want, is like to last.

Small parties make up in diligence what they want in numbers.

5. Cause; side.

Aegle came in to make their party good.

6. A select company invited to an entertainment; as a dining party a tea party an evening party

7. A single person distinct from or opposed to another.

If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony,

8. In military affairs, a detachment or small number of troops sent on a particular duty, as to intercept the enemy's convoy, to reconnoiter, to seek forage, to flank the enemy, etc.is used to qualify other words and may be considered either as part of a compound word, or as an adjective; as party man, party rage, party disputes, etc.

Party-Colored

P'ARTY-COLORED, adjective Having divers colors; as a party-colored plume; a party-colored flower.

Party-Jury

P'ARTY-JURY, noun A jury consisting of half natives and half foreigners.

Party-Man

P'ARTY-MAN, noun One of a party; usually, a factious man; a man of violent party principles; an abettor of a party.

Party-Spirit

P'ARTY-SPIRIT, noun The spirit that supports a party.

Party-Wall

P'ARTY-WALL, noun A wall that separates one house from the next.

Paru

PAR'U, noun A singular American fish.

Parvis

P'ARVIS, noun A church or church porch. [Not used.]

Parvitude

P'ARVITUDE

P'ARVITY, noun Littleness. [Not used.]

Parvity

P`ARVITY, n. Littleness. [Not used.]

Pas

PAS, noun Right of going foremost; precedence. [Not used.]

Pasch-Egg

PASCH-EGG, noun An egg stained and presented to young persons, about the time of Easter. [Local.]

Paschal

PAS'CHAL, adjective [Latin pascha.] Pertaining to the passover, or to Easter.

Pasquil

PAS'QUIL

PAS'QUILER, noun A lampooner.

PASQUINA'DE, noun A lampoon or satirical writing.

Pasquin

PAS'QUIN, noun A mutilated statue at Rome, in a corner of the palace of Ursini, so called from a cobbler of that name who was remarkable for his sneers and gibes. On this statue it has been customary to paste satiric papers. Hence, a lampoon.

PAS'QUIL

PAS'QUIN

Pass

P'ASS, verb intransitive [Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; Latin patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.

1. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another. A man may pass on foot, on horseback or in a carriage; a bird and a meteor pass through the air; a ship passes on or through the water; light passes from the sun to the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.

2. To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.

3. To vanish; to disappear; to be lost. In this sense, we usually say, to pass away.

Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass

4. To be spent; to go on or away progressively.

The time when the thing existed, is the idea of that space of duration which passed between some fixed period and the being of that thing.

5. To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]

6. To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.

7. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.

Neither of these bills has yet passed the house of commons.

8. To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received. Bank bills pass as a substitute for coin.

False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.

9. To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.

This will not pass for a fault in him, till it is proved to be one in us.

10. To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.

11. To be done.

Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to defile them.

12. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.

Though well we may not pass upon his life.

13. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.

14. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it pass

15. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass not be converted into ailment.

16. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.

17. To be in a tolerable state.

A middling sort of man was left well enough by his father to pass but he could never think he had enough, so long as any had more.

18. To be transferred from one owner to another. The land article passed by livery and seizin.

19. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass.

20. To run or extend; as a line or other thing. The north limit of Massachusetts passes three miles north of the Merrimac.

To come to pass to happen; to arrive; to come; to be; to exist; a phrase much used in the Scriptures.

To pass away, to move from sight; to vanish.

1. To be spent; to be lost.

A good part of their lives passes away without thinking.

To pass by, to move near and beyond. He passed by as we stood in the road.

To pass on, to proceed.

To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over to the other side.

To pass into, to unite and blend, as two substances or colors, in such a manner that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

P'ASS, verb transitive To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.

1. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.

2. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.

3. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.

4. To cause to move hastily.

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number.

5. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.

6. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.

7. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.

8. To procure or cause to go.

Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

9. To put an end to.

This night

We'll pass the business privately and well.

10. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

11. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.

12. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.

13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,

14. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.

15. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.

16. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.

17. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.

18. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.

To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto.

To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of like in idleness.

To pass by, to pass near and beyond.

1. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.

2. To neglect; to disregard.

Certain passages of Scripture we cannot pass by without injury to truth.

To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain.

1. To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.

P'ASS, noun A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.

1. A passage; a road.

2. Permission to pass to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.

A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas.

A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

3. An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.

4. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as , to make a pass at an antagonist.

5. State; condition or extreme case; extremity.

To what a pass are our minds brought.

Matters have been brought to this pass--

Pass-Parole

P'ASS-PARO'LE, noun [pass and parole.] In military affairs, a command given at the head of an army and communicated by word of mouth to the rear.

Passable

P'ASSABLE, adjective That may be passed, traveled or navigated. The roads are not passable The stream is passable in boats.

1. That may be penetrated; as a substance passable by a fluid.

2. Current; receivable; that may be or is transferred from hand to hand; as bills passable in lieu of coin. False coin is not passable

3. Popular; well received.

4. Supportable. [This should be passible.]

Passably

P'ASSABLY, adverb Tolerably. [See Passible.]

Passage

P'ASSAGE, noun

1. The act of passing or moving by land or water, or through the air or other substance; as the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a fowl; the passage of light or a meteor; the passage of fluids through the pores of the body, or from the glands. Clouds intercept the passage of solar rays.

2. The time of passing from one place to another. What passage had you? We had a passage of twenty five days to Havre de Grace, and of thirty eight days from England.

3. Road; way; avenue; a place where men or things may pass or be conveyed.

And with his pointed dart,

Explores the nearest passage to this heart.

4. Entrance or exit.

What! are my doors opposed against my passage?

5. Right of passing; as, to engage a passage on board a ship bound to India.

6. Occurrence; event; incident; that which happens; as a remarkable passage in the life of Newton. [See the Spanish verb, supra. This sense is obsolescent.]

7. A passing away; decay. [Little used.]

8. Intellectual admittance; mental reception.

Among whom I expect this treatise will have a fairer passage than among those deeply imbued with other principles.

9. Manner of being conducted; management.

On consideration of the conduct and passage of affairs in former times--

10. Part of a book or writing; a single clause, place or part of indefinite extent.

How commentators each dark passage shun.

11. Enactment; the act of carrying through all the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.

Bird of passage a fowl that passes at certain seasons from one climate to another, as in autumn to the south to avoid the winter's cold, and in spring to the north for breeding. Hence the phrase is sometimes applied to a man who has no fixed residence.

Passager

P'ASSAGER, noun A traveler or voyager; one who passes or journeys on foot, in a vehicle, or in a ship or boat. This word is usually written corruptly passenger, and the first vowel is often short.

Passed

P'ASSED

P'ASSENGER, noun One who is traveling, as in a public coach, or in a ship, or on foot. This is the usual, though corrupt orthography.

Passenger falcon, a kind of migratory hawk.

Passer

P'ASSER, noun One that passes; a passenger.

Passerine

P'ASSERINE, adjective [Latin passer, a sparrow.] Pertaining to sparrows, or to the order of birds to which sparrows belong, the Passeres.

Passible

PAS'SIBLE, adjective Susceptible of feeling or of impressions from external agents.

Apollinarius held even Deity to be passible

Passing

P'ASSING, participle present tense Moving; proceeding.

1. adjective Exceeding; surpassing; eminent.

2. Adverbially used to enforce or enhance the meaning of another word; exceedingly; as passing fair; passing strange.

Passing-Bell

P'ASSING-BELL, noun The bell that rings at the hour of death to obtain prayers for the passing soul. It is also used for the bell that rings immediately after death.

Passing-Note

P'ASSING-NOTE, noun In music, a note introduced between two others for the purpose of softening a distance or melodizing a passage.

Passingly

P'ASSINGLY, adverb Exceedingly.

Passion

PAS'SION, noun [Latin passio, from patior, to suffer.]

1. The impression or effect of an external agent upon a body; that which is suffered or received.

A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.

2. Susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

The differences of moldable and not moldable, etc., and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions. [Little used.]

3. Suffering; emphatically, the last suffering of the Savior.

To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs. Acts 1:3.

4. The feeling of the mind, or the sensible effect of impression; excitement, perturbation or agitation of mind; as desire, fear, hope, joy, grief, love, hatred. The eloquence of the orator is employed to move the passions.

5. Violent agitation or excitement of mind, particularly such as is occasioned by an offense, injury or insult; hence, violent anger.

6. Zeal; ardor; vehement desire.

When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.

7. Love.

He owned his passion for Amestris.

8. Eager desire; as a violent passion for fine clothes.

PAS'SION, verb intransitive To be extremely agitated. [Not used.]

Passion-Flower

PAS'SION-FLOWER, noun A flower and plant of the genus Passiflora.

Passion-Week

PAS'SION-WEEK, noun The week immediately preceding the festival of Easter; so called because in that week our Savior's passion and death took place.

Passionary

PAS'SIONARY, noun A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.

Passionate

PAS'SIONATE, adjective

1. Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; applied to persons.

Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate

2. Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern.

3. Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence.

PAS'SIONATE, verb transitive To affect with passion; to express passionately. [Not used.]

Passionately

PAS'SIONATELY, adverb With passion; with strong feeling; ardently; vehemently; as, to covet any thing passionately; to be passionately fond.

1. Angrily; with vehement resentment; as, to speak passionately

Passionateness

PAS'SIONATENESS, noun State of being subject to passion or anger.

1. Vehemence of mind.

Passioned

PAS'SIONED, adjective Disordered; violently affected.

1. Expressing passion.

Passionless

PAS'SIONLESS, adjective Not easily excited to anger; of a calm temper.

1. Void of passion.

Passive

P'ASSIVE, adjective [Latin passivus, from passus, patior, to suffer.]

1. Suffering; not acting, receiving or capable of receiving impressions from external agents. We were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas.

God is not in any respect passive

2. Unresisting; not opposing; receiving or suffering without resistance; as passive obedience; passive submission to the laws.

Passive verb, in grammar, is a verb which expresses passion, or the effect of an action of some agent; as in Latin doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved and admired by her friends; he is assailed by slander.

Passive obedience, as used by writers on government, denotes not only quiet unresting submission to power, but implies the denial of the right of resistance, or the recognition of the duty to submit in all cases to the existing government.

Passive prayer, among mystic divines, is suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet and yielding only to the impulses of grace.

Passive commerce, trade in which the productions of a country are carried by foreigners in their own bottoms. [See Active commerce.]

Passively

P'ASSIVELY, adverb With a passive nature or temper; with a temper disposed to submit to the acts of external agents, without resistance.

1. Without agency.

2. According to the form of the passive verb.

Passiveness

P'ASSIVENESS, noun Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as the passiveness of matter.

1. Passibility; capacity of suffering.

We shall lose our passiveness with our being.

2. Patience; calmness; unresisting submission.

Passivity

PASSIV'ITY, noun Passiveness, which see. [Little used.]

1. The tendency of a body to persevere in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body.

Passless

P'ASSLESS, adjective Having no passage.

Passover

P'ASSOVER, noun [pass and over.] A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God smiting the first-born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb.

1. The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover

Passport

P'ASSPORT, noun

1. A written license from a king or other proper authority, granting permission or safe conduct for one to pass through his territories, or to pass from one country to another, or to navigate a particular sea without hindrance or molestation.

2. A license for importing or exporting contraband goods or movables without paying the usual duties.

3. That which enables one to pass with safety or certainty.

His passport is his innocence and grace.

Passy-Measure

PAS'SY-MEASURE, noun An old stately kind of dance; a cinque-pace.

P'AST, participle passive of pass. Gone by or beyond; not present; not future.

1. Spent; ended; accomplished.

P'AST, noun Elliptically, past time; as indemnity for the past.

P'AST, preposition Beyond in time. Hebrews 11:1.

1. Having lost; not possessing; as, he was past sense of feeling.

2. Beyond; out of reach of; as, he was past cure or help.

Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame.

3. Beyond; further than; as past the boundary.

4. Above; more than.

The northern Irish Scots have bows not past three quarters of a yard long. [Not now used.]

5. After; beyond in time. The company assembled at half past seven, that is, at half an hour after seven.

Past

P'AST , participle passive Gone by; done; accomplished; ended.

1. Enacted; having received all the formalities necessary to constitute a law.

Paste

PASTE, noun [Latin pistus, or Gr. to sprinkle, or some root which signifies to mix and knead.]

1. A soft composition of substances, as flour moistened with water or milk and kneaded, or any kind of earth moistened and formed to the consistence of dough. paste made of flour is used in cookery; paste made of flour or earth, is used in various arts and manufactures, as a cement.

2. An artificial mixture in imitation of precious stones or gems, used in the glass trade.

3. In mineralogy, the mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

PASTE, verb transitive To unite or cement with paste; to fasten with paste

Pasteboard

PASTEBOARD, noun A species of thick paper formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or by macerating paper and casting it in molds, etc. It is used for the covering of books, for bonnets, etc.

Pastel

PAS'TEL, noun A plant, the woad, of the genus Isatis.

1. A coloring substance.

Pastern

PAS'TERN, noun The part of a horse's leg between the joint next the foot and the coronet of the hoof.

1. The human leg; in contempt.

Pastern-Joint

PAS'TERN-JOINT, noun The joint in a horse's leg next the foot.

Pasticcio

PASTIC'CIO, noun A medley; an olio.

Pastil

PAS'TIL, noun [Latin pastillus.]

1. A roll of paste, or a kind of paste made of different colors ground with gum-water in order to make crayons.

2. In pharmacy, a dry composition of sweet smelling resins, aromatic woods, etc. burnt to clear and scent the air of a room.

Pastime

P'ASTIME, noun [pass and time.] Sport; amusement; diversion; that which amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably.

P'ASTIME, verb intransitive To sport; to use diversion. [Little used.]

Pastor

P'ASTOR, noun [Latin from pasco, pastum, to feed.]

1. A shepherd; one that has the care of flocks and herds.

2. A minister of the gospel who has the charge of a church and congregation, whose duty is to watch over the people of his charge, and instruct them in the sacred doctrines of the christian religion.

Pastoral

P'ASTORAL, adjective [Latin pastoralis.] Pertaining to shepherds; as a pastoral life; pastoral manners.

1. Descriptive of the life of shepherds; as a pastoral poem.

2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as pastoral care or duties; a pastoral letter.

Piety is the life and soul of pastoral fidelity.

P'ASTORAL, noun A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds, or a poem in imitation of the action of a shepherd, and in which the speakers take upon themselves the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life.

Pastorate

P'ASTORATE, noun The office, state or jurisdiction of a spiritual pastor.

Pastorlike

P'ASTORLIKE

P'ASTORLY , adjective Becoming a pastor.

Pastorly

P`ASTORLY , a. Becoming a pastor.

Pastorship

P'ASTORSHIP, noun The office or rank of pastor.

Pastry

PASTRY, noun [from paste.] Things in general which are made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient, as pies, tarts, cake and the like.

1. The place where pastry is made.

Pastry-Cook

PASTRY-COOK, noun One whose occupation is to make and sell articles made of paste.

Pasturable

P'ASTURABLE, adjective [from pasture.] Fit for pasture.

Pasturage

P'ASTURAGE, noun

1. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

2. Grazing ground; land appropriated to grazing.

3. Grass for feed.

Pasture

P'ASTURE, noun [Latin pasco, pastum, to feed.]

1. Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

2. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture It is sometimes called pasture-land.

3. Human culture; education. [Not used.]

Common of pasture is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.

P'ASTURE, verb transitive To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.

P'ASTURE, verb intransitive To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.

Pasty

PASTY, adjective Like paste; of the consistence of paste.

PASTY, noun [from paste.] A pie made of paste and baked without a dish.

Pat

PAT, adjective Fit; convenient; exactly suitable either as to time or place. [Not an elegant word, but admissible in burlesque.]

PAT, adverb Fitly; conveniently.

PAT, noun A light quick blow or stroke with the fingers or hand.

PAT, verb transitive To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to tap.

Gay pats my shoulder and you vanish quite.

Pataca

PATA'CA

PATA'CHE, noun A tender or small vessel employed in conveying men or orders from one ship or place to another.

Patache

PATA'CHE, n. A tender or small vessel employed in conveying men or orders from one ship or place to another.

Patacoon

PATACOON', noun A Spanish coin of the value of 4s. 8d.sterling, or about $1.04 cents.

Patavinity

PATAVIN'ITY, noun The use of local words, or the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; so denominated from Patavium or Padua, the place of his nativity.

Patch

PATCH, noun

1. A piece of cloth sewed on a garment to repair it.

2. A small piece of any thing used to repair a breach.

3. A small piece of silk used to cover a defect on the face, or to add a charm.

4. A piece inserted in mosaic or variegated work.

5. A small piece of ground, or a small detached piece.

6. A paltry fellow. This use is sometimes heard in vulgar language; as a cross-patch.

PATCH, verb transitive To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces; as, to patch a coat.

1. To adorn with a patch or with patches.

In the middle boxes were several ladies who patched both sides of their faces.

2. To mend with pieces; to repair clumsily.

3. To repair with pieces fastened on; as, to patch the roof of a house.

4. To make up of pieces and shreds.

5. To dress in a party-colored coat.

6. To make suddenly or hastily; to make without regard to forms; as, to patch up a peace.

Patched

PATCH'ED, participle passive Mended with a patch or patches; mended clumsily.

Patcher

PATCH'ER, noun One that patches or botches.

Patchery

PATCH'ERY, noun Bungling work; botchery; forgery.

Patching

PATCH'ING, participle present tense Mending with a piece or pieces; botching.

Patchwork

PATCH'WORK, noun Work composed of pieces of various figures sewed together.

1. Work composed of pieces clumsily put together.

Pate

PATE, noun

1. The head, or rather the top of the head; applied to persons, it is now used in contempt or ridicule.

2. The skin of a calf's head.

3. In fortification, a kind of platform resembling what is called a horse shoe.

Pated

PA'TED, adjective In composition, having a pate; as long-pated, cunning; shallow-pated, having weak intellect.

Patee

PATEE'

PATEFAC'TION, noun [Latin patefactio; pateo, to open, and facio, to make.] The act of opening or manifesting; open declaration.

Patelliform

PATEL'LIFORM, adjective [Latin patella, a dish, and form.] Of the form of a dish or saucer.

Patellite

PAT'ELLITE, noun Fossil remains of the patella, a shell.

Paten

PAT'EN

PAT'ENT, adjective [Latin patens, from pateo, to open.]

1. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle with the stem or branch; as a patent leaf. [See Letter.]

2. Open to the perusal of all; as letters patent. [See Letter.]

3. Appropriated by letters patent.

Madder--in the time of Charles the first, was made a patent commodity.

4. Apparent; conspicuous.

PAT'ENT, noun A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, verb transitive To grant by patent.

1. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.

Patent

PAT'ENT, a. [L. patens, from pateo, to open.] 1. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle with the stem or branch; as a patent leaf. [See Letter.]2. Open to the perusal of all; as letters patent. [See Letter.]3. Appropriated by letters patent. Madder--in the time of Charles the first, was made a patent commodity.4. Apparent; conspicuous. PAT'ENT, n. A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, v.t. To grant by patent. 1. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.

Patent-Rolls

PATENT-ROLLS, noun The records or registers of patents.

Patented

PAT'ENTED, participle passive Granted by patent; secured by patent or by law as an exclusive privilege.

Patentee

PATENTEE', noun One to whom a grant is made or a privilege secured by patent or by law.

Patenting

PAT'ENTING, participle present tense Granting by patent; securing as a privilege.

Paternal

PATERN'AL, adjective [Latin paternus, from pater, father.]

1. Pertaining to a father; fatherly; as paternal care of affection; paternal favor or admonition.

2. Derived from the father; hereditary; as a paternal estate.

Paternity

PATERN'ITY, noun Fathership; the relation of a father.

The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership.

Paternoster

PA'TERNOSTER, noun [Latin our father.] The Lord's prayer.

Path

P'ATH, noun plural paths. [Gr. to tread.]

1. A way beaten or trodden by the feet of man or beast, or made hard by wheels; that part of a highway on which animals or carriages ordinarily pass; applied to the ground only, and never to a paved street in a city.

2. Any narrow way beaten by the foot.

3. The way, course or track where a body moves in the atmosphere or in space; as the path of a planet or comet; the path of a meteor.

4. A way or passage.

5. Course of life.

He marketh all my paths. Job 33:11.

6. Precepts; rules prescribed.

Uphold my going in thy paths. Psalms 17:4.

7. Course of providential dealings; moral government.

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant. Psalms 25:4.

P'ATH, verb transitive To make a path by treading; to beat a path as in snow.

To push forward; to cause to go; to make way for.

P'ATH, verb intransitive To walk abroad.

Pathetic

PATHET'IC

PATHET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic

PATHET'IC, noun Style or manner adapted to awaken the passions, especially tender emotions.

A musician at Venice is said to have so excelled in the pathetic as to be able to play any of his auditors into distraction.

Pathetical

PATHET'ICAL, a. [Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.

Pathetically

PATHET'ICALLY, adverb In such a manner as to excite the tender passions.

Patheticalness

PATHET'ICALNESS, noun The quality of moving the tender passions.

Pathfly

P'ATHFLY, noun A fly found in foot-paths.

Pathic

PATH'IC, noun [Gr.] A catamite; a male that submits to the crime against nature.

Pathless

P'ATHLESS, adjective Having no beaten way; untrodden; as a pathless forest; a pathless coast.

Pathognomonic

PATHOGNOMON'IC, adjective [Gr. passion or suffering, and to know.]

Indicating that which is inseparable from a disease, being found in that and in no other; hence, indicating that by which a disease may be certainly known; characteristic; as pathognomonic symptoms.

Pathognomy

PATHOG'NOMY, noun [Gr. signification.] Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Pathologic

PATHOLOG'IC

PATHOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Pathology.] Pertaining to pathology.

Pathological

PATHOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Pathology.] Pertaining to pathology.

Pathologically

PATHOLOG'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of pathology.

Pathologist

PATHOL'OGIST, noun One who treats of pathology.

Pathology

PATHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. passion, suffering, and discourse.] That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes and symptoms; or the doctrine of the causes and nature of diseases, comprehending nosology, etiology, symptomatology, and therapeutics.

Pathos

PA'THOS, noun [Gr. to suffer.] Passion; warmth or vehemence, in a speaker; or in language, that which excites emotions and passions.

Pathway

P'ATHWAY, noun A path; usually, a narrow way to be passed on foot.

1. A way; a course of life. Proverbs 12:28.

Patible

PAT'IBLE, adjective [Latin patibilis, from patior, to suffer.]

Sufferable; tolerable; that may be endured. [Not used.]

Patibulary

PATIB'ULARY, adjective [Latin patibulum, a gallows.]

Belonging to the gallows, or to execution on the cross.

Patience

PATIENCE, noun pa'shens. [Latin patientia, from patior, to suffer.]

1. The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. patience may spring from constitutional fortitude, from a kind of heroic pride, or from christian submission to the divine will.

2. A calm temper which bears evils without murmuring or discontent.

3. The act or quality of waiting long for justice or expected good without discontent.

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matthew 18:26.

4. Perseverance; constancy in labor or exertion.

He learnt with patience and with meekness taught.

5. The quality of bearing offenses and injuries without anger or revenge.

His rage was kindled and his patience gone.

6. Sufferance; permission. [Not used.]

7. A plant, a species of rumex of dock.

Patient

PATIENT, adjective pa'shent. [Latin patiens.]

1. Having the quality of enduring evils without murmuring or fretfulness; sustaining afflictions of body or mind with fortitude, calmness or christian submission to the divine will; as a patient person, or a person of patient temper. It is followed by of before the evil endured; as patient of labor or pain; patient of heat or cold.

2. Not easily provoked; calm under the sufferance of injuries or offenses; not revengeful.

Be patient towards all men. 1 Thessalonians 5:14.

3. Persevering; constant in pursuit or exertion; calmly diligent.

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.

4. Not hasty; not over eager or impetuous; waiting or expecting with calmness or without discontent.

Not patient to expect the turns of fate.

PA'TIENT, noun A person or thing that received impressions from external agents; he or that which is passively affected.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient

1. A person diseased or suffering bodily indisposition. It is used in relation to the physician; as, the physician visits his patient morning and evening.

2. It is sometimes used absolutely for a sick person.

It is wonderful to observe how inapprehensive these patients are of their disease.

PA'TIENT, verb intransitive To compose one's self. [Not used.]

Patiently

PA'TIENTLY, adverb With calmness or composure; without discontent or murmuring. Submit patiently to the unavoidable evils of life.

1. With calm and constant diligence; as, to examine a subject patiently

2. Without agitation, uneasiness or discontent; without undue haste or eagerness; as, to wait patiently for more favorable events.

PATIN. [See Paten.]

Patin

PAT'IN, noun [Latin patina.] A plate. [Not used.]

1. In the Romish church, the cover of the chalice, used for holding particles of the host.

Patly

PAT'LY, adverb [from pat.] Fitly; conveniently.

Patness

PAT'NESS, noun [from pat.] Fitness; suitableness; convenience.

Patriarch

PA'TRIARCH, noun [Latin patriarcha; Gr. a family, father, and a chief.]

1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs by paternal right. It is usually applied to the progenitors of the Israelites, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the sons of Jacob, or to the heads of families before the flood; as the antediluvian patriarchs.

2. A learned and distinguished character among the Jews.

3. In the christian church, a dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Ephesus.

Patriarchal

PATRIARCH'AL

PA'TRIARCHATE

PATRIARCH'IC, adjective Belonging to patriarchs; possessed by patriarchs; as patriarchal power or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see.

1. Subject to a patriarch; as a patriarchal church.

Patriarchal cross, in heraldry, is that where the shaft is twice crossed, the lower arms being longer than the upper ones.

Patriarchate

PA'TRIARCHATE

Patriarchic

PATRIARCH'IC, a. Belonging to patriarchs; possessed by patriarchs; as patriarchal power or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see. 1. Subject to a patriarch; as a patriarchal church. Patriarchal cross, in heraldry, is that where the shaft is twice crossed, the lower arms being longer than the upper ones.

Patriarchship

PA'TRIARCHSHIP, noun The office, dignity or jurisdiction of a patriarch or ecclesiastical superior.

Patriarchy

PA'TRIARCHY, noun The jurisdiction of a patriarch; a patriarchate.

Patrician

PATRI'CIAN, adjective [Latin patricius, from pater, father.] Senatorial; noble; not plebeian. This epithet is derived from the Roman patres, fathers, the title of Roman senators; as patrician birth or blood; patrician families.

PATRI'CIAN, noun A nobleman. In the Roman state, the patricians were the descendants of the first Roman senators.

Patrimonial

PATRIMO'NIAL, adjective Pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as a patrimonial estate.

Patrimonially

PATRIMO'NIALLY, adverb By inheritance.

Patrimony

PAT'RIMONY, noun [Latin patrimonium, from pater, father.]

1. A right or estate inherited from one's ancestors.

2. A church estate or revenue; as St. Peter's patrimony

Patriot

PAT'RIOT, noun [Latin patria, one's native country, form pater, father.]

A person who loves his country, and zealously supports and defends it and its interests.

Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

PAT'RIOT, adjective Patriotic; devoted to the welfare of one's country; as patriot zeal.

Patriotic

PATRIOT'IC, adjective Full of patriotism; actuated by the love of one's country; as a patriotic hero or statesman.

1. Inspired by the love of one's country; directed to the public safety and welfare; as patriotic zeal.

Patriotism

PAT'RIOTISM , noun Love of one's country; the passion which aims to serve one's country, either in defending it from invasion, or protecting its rights and maintaining its laws and institutions in vigor and purity. patriotism is the characteristic of a good citizen, the noblest passion that animates a man in the character of a citizen.

Patristic

PATRIS'TIC

PATRIS'TICAL, adjective [from Latin pater, patres, fathers.]

Pertaining to the ancient fathers of the christian church.

Patristical

PATRIS'TICAL, a. [from L. pater, patres, fathers.]

Pertaining to the ancient fathers of the christian church.

Patrocinate

PATROC'INATE, verb transitive To patronize. [Not used.]

Patrocination

PATROCINA'TION, noun Countenance; support. [Not used.]

Patrol

PATROL

PATROLL, noun

1. In war, a round; a walking or marching round by a guard in the night, to watch and observe what passes, and to secure the peace and safety of a camp or other place.

2. The guard or persons who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty is to patroll.

In France, there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.

PATROLL, verb intransitive To go the rounds in a camp or garrison; to march about and observe what passes; as a guard.

Patroll

PATROLL, n. 1. In war, a round; a walking or marching round by a guard in the night, to watch and observe what passes, and to secure the peace and safety of a camp or other place.2. The guard or persons who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty is to patroll. In France, there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations. PATROLL, v.i. To go the rounds in a camp or garrison; to march about and observe what passes; as a guard.

Patrolling

PATROLLING, participle present tense Going the rounds, as a guard.

Patron

PAT'RON, noun [Latin patronus; Gr. father.]

1. Among the Romans, a master who had freed his slave, and retained some rights over him after his emancipation; also, a man of distinction under whose protection another placed himself. Hence,

2. One who countenances, supports and protects either a person or a work.

3. In the church of Rome, a guardian or saint, whose name a person bears, or under whose special care he is placed and whom he invokes; or a saint in whose name a church or order is founded.

4. In the canon or common law, one who has the gift and disposition of a benefice.

5. An advocate; a defender; one that specially countenances and supports, or lends aid to advance; as patrons of the arts; a patron of useful undertakings; the patrons of virtue.

6. In seamen's language, the commander of a small vessel or passage-boat; also, one who steers a ship's long boat.

Patronage

PAT'RONAGE, noun Special countenance or support; favor or aid afforded to second the views of a person or to promote a design.

1. Guardianship, as of a saint.

2. Advowson; the right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice.

PAT'RONAGE, verb transitive To patronize or support. [Not used.]

Patronal

PAT'RONAL, adjective Doing the office of a patron; protecting; supporting; favoring; defending. [Little used.]

Patroness

PAT'RONESS, noun A female that favors, countenances or supports.

Now night came down, and rose full soon

That patroness of rogues, the moon.

1. A female guardian saint.

2. A female that has the right of presenting to a church living.

Patronize

PAT'RONIZE, verb transitive To support; to countenance; to defend; as a patron his client.

1. To favor; to lend aid to promote; as an undertaking.

2. To maintain; to defend; to support.

This idea has been patronized by two states only.