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Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering. -- For*bear"ing*ly, adv.

Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solu…

let me compound this strife. Shak. To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding being an indictable offense. See Theftbote.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

To treat with consideration or indulgence. Forbearing one another in love. Eph. iv. 2.

The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience. He soon shall findForbearance no acquittance ere day end. Milton.

Forbearing. [R.] Carlyle.

or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted. Religion, harsh, intolerant, austere, Parent of manners like herself severe. Cowper.

easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. Num. xii. 3.

Forbearing; long-suffering. Be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. v. 14.

Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.

The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own desires; self-sacrifice.

Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

Without a truce; unforbearing. Two minds in one, and each a truceless guest. H. Brooke.

actual exercise of the power the mind has to order the consideration of any idea, or the forbearing to consider it. Locke. Volition is an act of the mind, knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from, any particular action. Locke.…

The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. Dryden. The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. Milton.