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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…

To complain. [Scot.]

Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.

To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.

One who makes complaint; the plaintiff. [Obs.]

Complaint. [Poetic] Shak.

Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament. Chaucer."The Psalmist's mournful plaint." Wordsworth.

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney.

Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden.

Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.

To complain. See Plain. [Obs.]

to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.

To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. Barrow.

One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.

With whining or complaint.

To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. Burrill.

A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

A complainant; a plaintiff.

Complaining; querulous; apt to complain. -- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Quer`i*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.

A complaint or complaining. [Obs.] E. Hall.