Definition for TOL'ER-ATE

TOL'ER-ATE, v.t. [Fr. tolerer; L. tolero, from tollo, to lift; Ch. דול, to lift or raise. Class Dl, No. 3, and see No. 6, 7, 18, 20, 28, 32.]

To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hinderance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; as, to tolerate opinions or practices. The Protestant religion is tolerated in France, and the Romish in Great Britain. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. The law of love tolerates vice, and patronizes every virtue. G. Spring.

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