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The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.

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

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.

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

Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution. [R.] Carlyle.

Hanged on a gallows. [R.]

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.

In a patient manner. Cowper.

A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." Shak.

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

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.

Pastry. Sterne.

Fitly; seasonably. Barrow.

itness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience. The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.

An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; - - said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Andrews.