Word Meanings - OVERPATIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Patient to excess.

PATIENTLY
In a patient manner. Cowper.
EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
PATIENT
1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell. 2. Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-
COMPATIENT
Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
OVERPATIENT
Patient to excess.
OMNIPATIENT
Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
OUT-PATIENT
A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
IMPATIENT
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. A violent,
IMPATIENTLY
In an impatient manner.
UNPATIENT
Impatient. Wyclif.
INPATIENT
A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.