Patent - Patriarchal

Prev Next

Patent (pătent or pātent), a. [L. patens, -entis, p. pr. of patere to be open: cf. F. patent. Cf. .] 1. (Oftener pronounced pātent in this sense) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
[ Webster]

He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley.
[ Webster]

2. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d .
[ Webster]

3. Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
[ Webster]

Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.
[ Webster]

4. (Bot.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
[ Webster]

Coloq. Patent leather , a varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness work. -- Coloq. Patent office , a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents. -- Coloq. Patent right . (a) The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture. (b) (Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives. -- Coloq. Patent rolls , the registers, or records, of patents.
[ Webster]

Patent, n. [Cf. F. patente. See , a.] 1. A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. Specifically: (a) A writing securing to an invention. (b) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
[ Webster]

Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent. Fuller.
[ Webster]

☞ In the United States, by the act of 1870, patents for inventions are issued for seventeen years, without the privilege of renewal except by act of Congress.
[ Webster]

2. The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
[ Webster]

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend. Shak.
[ Webster]

Patent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patented; p. pr. & vb. n. Patenting.] To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
[ Webster]

Patentable (?), a. Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
[ Webster]

Patentee (?), n. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.
[ Webster]

Patent-hammered (?), a. (Stone Cutting) Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
[ Webster]

Patently (?; see , a.), adv. Openly; evidently.
[ Webster]

Patera (?), n.; pl. Pateræ(�). [L., fr. patere to lie open.] 1. A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices.
[ Webster]

2. (Arch.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
[ Webster]

Paterero (?), n. See . [Obs.]
[ Webster]

Paterfamilias (?), n.; pl. Pateresfamilias (#). [L., fr. pater father + familias, gen. of familia family.] (Rom. Law) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
[ Webster]

Paternal (?), a. [L. paternus, fr. pater a father: cf. F. paternel. See .] 1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. “Under paternal rule.” Milton.
[ Webster]

2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
[ Webster]

Their small paternal field of corn. Dryden.
[ Webster]

Coloq. Paternal government (Polit. Science), the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own affairs.
[ Webster]

Paternalism (?), n. (Polit. Science) The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under . London Times.
[ Webster]

paternalistic adj. Benevolent but sometimes intrusive; -- used often of governments and the administration of large organizations. See paternal government.
[WordNet 1.5]

Paternally, adv. In a paternal manner.
[ Webster]

Paternity (?), n. [L. paternitas: cf. F. paternité. See .] 1. The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
[ Webster]

The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. Sir W. Raleigh.
[ Webster]

2. Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.
[ Webster]

3. Origin; authorship.
[ Webster]

The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. Sir W. Scott.
[ Webster]

Paternoster (?), n. [L., Our Father.] 1. The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
[ Webster]

2. (Arch.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
[ Webster]

3. (Angling) A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers.
[ Webster]

4. (Mining) An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top.
[Webster Suppl.]

Coloq. Paternoster pump , Coloq. Paternoster wheel , a chain pump; a noria. -- Coloq. Paternoster while , the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.
[ Webster]

Patesi (?), n. [Assyrian.] (Babylonian Antiq.) A religious as well as a secular designation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.
[Webster Suppl.]

path (pȧth), n.; pl. paths (pȧ�z). [AS. pæð, pað; akin to D. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. patos, Skr. patha, path. √21.] 1. A trodden way; a footway.
[ Webster]

The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.
[ Webster]

2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
[ Webster]

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10.
[ Webster]

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.
[ Webster]

Path (pȧ�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pathed (pȧ�d); p. pr. & vb. n. Pathing.] To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] “Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways.” Drayton.
[ Webster]

Path, v. i. To walk or go. [R.] Shak.
[ Webster]

Pathan prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan, especially of the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan.
Syn. -- Afghan, Afghanistani, Pashto, pashtun.
[WordNet 1.5]

pathematic (păth�mătĭk), a. [Gr. paqhmatikos, fr. paqhma a suffering, paqei^n, to suffer.] Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] Chalmers.
[ Webster]

Pathetic (pȧthĕtĭk), a. [L. patheticus, Gr. paqhtikos, fr. paqei^n, paschein, to suffer: cf. F. pathétique. See .] 1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. “Pathetic action.” Macaulay.
[ Webster]

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter.
[ Webster]

Coloq. Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. -- Coloq. Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. -- Coloq. The pathetic , a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.
[ Webster]

Pathetical (?), a. Pathetic. [R.] -- Pathetically, adv. -- Patheticalness, n.
[ Webster]

Pathetism (?), n. [Cf. F. pathétisme.] See . L. Sunderland.
[ Webster]

Pathfinder (?), n. One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
[ Webster]

The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.
[ Webster]

Pathic (păthĭc), n. [L. pathicus, Gr. paqikos, passive, fr. paqei^n, paschei^n, to suffer] A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. [R.] B. Jonson.
☞ The term “crime against nature“ to refer to homosexual activity is now (2002) seldom used except by religious conservatives. It was in the Webster, and is left here for historical purposes.
[ Webster]

Pathic, a. [Gr. paqikos.] Passive; suffering.
[ Webster]

Pathless (?), a. Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
[ Webster]

Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.
[ Webster]

Pathmaker (?), n. One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
[ Webster]

Pathogen, Pathogene (?), n. [See .] (Biol.) Any microorganism which causes disease; a pathogenic organism; an infectious microorganism; a bacterium, virus, or other agent which can cause disease by infection; -- opposed to zymogene. The spelling pathogene is now archaic.
[ Webster + PJC]

Pathogenesis (?), n. (Med.) Pathogeny.
[ Webster]

Pathogenetic (?), a. (Med.) Pathogenic.
[ Webster]

Pathogenic (?), a. [Gr. paqos disease + the root of genos birth.] (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
[ Webster]

Pathogeny (?), n. (Med.) (a) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled. (b) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
[ Webster]

Pathognomonic (?), a. [Gr. � skilled in judging of diseases; paqos a disease + � skilled: cf. F. pathognomonique. See .] (Med.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
[ Webster]

The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy. Arbuthnot.
[ Webster]

Pathognomy (?), n. [Gr. � passion + � a judgment, fr. �, �, to know.] Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.
[ Webster]

{ Pathologic (?), Pathological (?), } a. [Gr. �: cf. F. pathologique.] 1. Of or pertaining to pathology.
[ Webster]

2. (Med.) caused by or due to disease; abnormal; morbid; as, pathological tissue; a pathological condition.
[Webster Suppl.]

-- Pathologically, adv.
[ Webster]

pathologist (?), n. [Cf. F. pathologiste.] One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
[ Webster]

pathology (-j�), n.; pl. pathologies (-jĭz). [Gr. paqos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.] 1. (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
[ Webster]

☞ Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, ætiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.
[ Webster]

2. (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
[Webster Suppl.]

Coloq. Celluar pathology , a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased functions of the body. Virchow.
[ Webster]

Pathopœia (?), n.; pl. -ias (#). [NL., from Gr. paqopoii:a; paqos passion + poiei^n to make.] (Rhet.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.
[ Webster]

Pathos (pāthŏs), n. [L., from Gr. paqos a suffering, passion, fr. paqei^n, paschein, to suffer; cf. ponos toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient.] 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.
[ Webster]

The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton.
[ Webster]

1. The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos.
[Webster Suppl.]

2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
[Webster Suppl.]

Pathway (?), n. A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak.
[ Webster]

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28.
[ Webster]

We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.
[ Webster]

Patible (?), a. [L. patibilis, fr. pati to suffer.] Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.
[ Webster]

Patibulary (?), a. [L. patibulum a gallows: cf. F. patibulaire.] Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution. [R.] Carlyle.
[ Webster]

Patibulated, a. Hanged on a gallows. [R.]
[ Webster]

Patience (pāsh�ns), n. [F. patience, fr. L. patientia. See .] 1. 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.
[ Webster]

Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering. Col. i. 11.
[ Webster]

I must have patience to endure the load. Shak.
[ Webster]

Who hath learned lowliness
From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. Keble.
[ Webster]

2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
[ Webster]

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 29.
[ Webster]

3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
[ Webster]

He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. Harte.
[ Webster]

4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] Hooker.
[ Webster]

They stay upon your patience. Shak.
[ Webster]

5. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
[ Webster]

6. (Card Playing) Solitaire.
[ Webster]

Syn. -- , . Patience implies the quietness or self-possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation.
[ Webster]

Patient (pāsh�nt), a. [F., fr. L. patiens, -entis, p. pr. of pati to suffer. Cf. , .] 1. Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
[ Webster]

Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.
[ Webster]

2. Undergoing pains, trials, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
[ Webster]

3. Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
[ Webster]

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. Sir I. Newton.
[ Webster]

4. Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
[ Webster]

Not patient to expect the turns of fate. Prior.
[ Webster]

5. Forbearing; long-suffering.
[ Webster]

Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.
[ Webster]

Patient, n. 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
[ Webster]

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.
[ Webster]

2. A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
[ Webster]

Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. Sir P. Sidney.
[ Webster]

Coloq. In patient , a patient who receives lodging and food, as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary. -- Coloq. Out patient , one who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.
[ Webster]

Patient, v. t. To compose, to calm. [Obs.] “Patient yourself, madam.” Shak.
[ Webster]

Patiently, adv. In a patient manner. Cowper.
[ Webster]

{ Patin (?), Patine }, n. A plate. See . “Inlaid with patines of bright gold.” Shak.
[ Webster]

patina (pătĭnȧ; It. pät�nȧ), n. [It., fr. L. patina a dish, a pan, a kind of cake. Cf. .] 1. A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
[ Webster]

2. (Fine Arts) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. Fairholt.
[ Webster]

patinate v. t. to coat with a patina; to patinize.
Syn. -- patinize.
[WordNet 1.5]

patinize v. t. to coat with a patina.
Syn. -- patinate.
[WordNet 1.5]

Patio (pät��), n. [Sp., a court] (Metal) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
[ Webster]

☞ The patio process is used to reduce silver ores by amalgamation.
[ Webster]

2. In Spain, Spanish America, etc., a court or courtyard of a house or other building; esp., an inner court open to the sky.
[Webster Suppl.]

3. (păt�ō) A usually paved area adjacent to a dwelling, used for outdoor lounging, dining, receptions of guests, etc.
[PJC]

patio furniture Furniture such as chairs, tables, settees or loungers, suited for use on a patio{3}, i.e. such that will not be damaged by exposure to rain, sun or other outdoor elements.
[PJC]

patisserie, Pâtisserie (?), n. [F. pâtisserie. See .] 1. Pastry. Sterne.
[Webster Suppl.]

2. a shop selling mostly pastries; a pastry shop.
[PJC]

Patly (?), adv. Fitly; seasonably. Barrow.
[ Webster]

Patness, n. Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.
[ Webster]

The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow.
[ Webster]

Patois (pȧtwä), n. [F.] A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
[ Webster]

The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.
[ Webster]

Patolli (?), n. [Mex. patolli dice.] An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.
[Webster Suppl.]

Patonce (pȧtŏns), a. [Cf. F. patte d'once paw of an ounce.] (Her.) Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of .
[ Webster]

Patrial (pātrĭ�l), a. [L. patria fatherland, country, fr. pater father.] (Lat. Gram.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. -- n. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Andrews.
[ Webster]

Patriarch (pātrĭärk), n. [F. patriarche, L. patriarcha, Gr. pariarchhs, fr. paria lineage, especially on the father's side, race; pathr father + 'archos a leader, chief, fr. 'archein to lead, rule. See , .] 1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.
[ Webster]

2. (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.
[ Webster]

3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
[ Webster]

The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow.
[ Webster]

The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.
[ Webster]

Patriarchal (?), a. [Cf. F. patriarcal.] 1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.
[ Webster]

2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
[ Webster]

About whose patriarchal knee
Late the little children clung. Tennyson.
[ Webster]

3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
[ Webster]

Coloq. Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of . -- Coloq. Patriarchal dispensation , the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
[ Webster]

Prev Next

Concept Explore Home

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z