Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

(1) - Pathway (n.) A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

(1) - Patience (n.) Solitaire.
(2) - Patience (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
(3) - Patience (n.) Sufferance; permission.
(4) - Patience (n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
(5) - Patience (n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
(6) - Patience (n.) 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.

(1) - Patient (v. t.) To compose, to calm.
(2) - Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
(3) - Patient (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
(4) - Patient (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
(5) - Patient (a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
(6) - Patient (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
(7) - Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
(8) - Patient (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.