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In a patient manner. Cowper.

In an impatient manner.

To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with. She could not abide Master Shallow. Shak.

To bite or chew impatiently. They began . . . irefully to champ upon the bit. Hooker.

In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion. Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp.

Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge.

sed as prisons. Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale. Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.

To accept; to undergo; to submit to. "I embrace this fortune patiently." Shak.

To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee Ezek. xxii. 14.

Passionately; impatiently. Shak.

Disposition to bear injuries patiently; forbearance; patience. Jer. Taylor.

To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. "Plodding schoolmen." Drayton.

Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

y; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.

o often used reflexively. I here resign my government to thee. Shak. Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost. Milton. What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God Tiilotson.

To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.

A rowlock. I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.