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Suffering; sorrowful. [Obs.] Shak.

Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. Milton. The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas. Locke.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] Chalmers.

Passive; suffering.

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.

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. Strenthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long- suffering. Col. i. 11. I must have patience to endure the load. Shak. Who hat…

Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas"sian*ism, n.

Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton.

Pain; sorrow; suffering. [Obs.] "Joy or penance he feeleth none." Chaucer.

Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] "My penurious band." Shak.

Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

Suffering; endurance. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy; delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic. -- Phre*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.

To suffer; to be afflicted. [Obs.]

A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow- feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. Shak.

Suffering from pleurisy.