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Patient to excess.

Examination of a patient by touch. Quain.

One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

Acting in common; participating. [R.] Shak.

The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself! Atterbury.

Capable of participating.

One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.

A peripatetic. [Obs.]

s instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

Peripatetic. [R.] Hales.

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.

One skilled in diseases of plants.

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

The common English periwinkle. [Prov. Eng.]

flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.

See Pitapat.

A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.

Pompous. [Obs.] Barrow.