Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: path – patron
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path, n. [OE pæþ.] (webplay: abroad, go, goings, foot, life, push).
- Way; road; route; circuit; [fig.] track of living.
- Track; trail; narrow footway.
pathetic, adj. [Late L. pathetic-us < Gk 'sensitive, liable to suffer'.]
- Pitiable; moving; saddening; emotional.
- Sorrowful; mournful; [fig.] funereal in tone; reminiscent of suffering or death; [word play on “Pathetique”] solemn, like Beethoven's piano sonata 8 in C minor, Op. 13.
pathos, n. [Gk pathos, suffering, feeling.] (webplay: sorrow).
Emotion; passion; intense feeling.
patience (-'), n. [OFr < L. patient-em, suffering.] (webplay: exertion, life, permission).
- Longsuffering; pious acceptance; calm endurance; quiet perseverance; waiting without complaint; constant diligence.
- Mercy; understanding; compassion; sympathy.
patient (-est), adj. [OFr passient < L. patī, to suffer.] (webplay: bears, Christian, discontent, divine, expected, life, long, mind, morning, pain, pass, suffer, thought, will).
- Painful; difficult; demanding fortitude; requiring endurance.
- Enduring; uncomplaining; self-denying; expectant; calm.
- Ill; invalid; diseased [fig.] passively afflicted.
patient, adv. [see patient, adj.] (webplay: bears, cold, mind, pain).
- Bravely; uncomplainingly; courageously; [fig.] hidden; concealed.
- Diligently; assiduously; unceasingly; constantly; expectantly; earnestly; painfully.
patriarch (-'s), n. [OFr patriarche.]
- Prophet Noah; righteous descendent of Adam and Eve; spiritual leader in the Old Testament of the Bible; family man who sent birds out of the Ark to look for land after the great flood had cleansed the earth of wickedness; (see Genesis 6-10).
- Grandparent; head of a family; senior one in the household; [variant] ancestor.
patriot, adj. [Fr. < L. patriota, fellow-countryman.] (webplay: country, dying, loves).
Native; loyal; allegiant; devoted.
patriotic, adj. [Late L. patriotic-us.] (webplay: man).
Phrase. “Patriotic day”: Independence Day; Memorial Day; Veteran's Day; holiday for the honoring of those who died in battle; occasion for remembering those who gave their life for their country.
patron (-s), n. [OFr < L. patron-us, protector, defender, patron.] (webplay: arts).
Supporter; benefactor; helper; admirer; attender; audience.