PATIENT (2)

patient (2). Patient, n. one who receives impressions, a diseased person

---

Pa″tient, n. 1. 1. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue. 2. 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.