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Pac-, Patience, -iens, n. Also: pas- and -yence; pasienc; paciencis. [ME. and e.m.E. pacience (Ancr. R.), patience (1575), OF. pac-, patience, L. patientia f. patiens Pacient a.] Patience, in the usual senses.Patience perforce, patience by compulsion.Also personified.(1) a1400 Leg. S. iii. 521.
Jhesu al paciens Schewit and mad na-kyne defens 1456 Hay I. 110/31.
It is na poynt of pacience to mak were [etc.] c1460 Consail Vys Man 37.
Till gud paciens gud grace is send 1490 Irland Mir. I. 56/26. Id. Asl. MS. 71/2. a1500 Quare Jel. 486.
Hir innocence … hath no suerd bot suffrance and pacience c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxiii. 22 (M).
Be ryche in patience gif thow in gudis be pure 15.. Dunb. App. v. 5. 1549 Compl. 34/29. Arundel MS. 243/151.
Neuertheles thou tynt nocht pacience 1562-3 Winȝet II. 47/23.
He wes a man … of grete patience a1568 Scott xix. 31.
But paciens … Nane may the panis of lufe indure Id. xx. 9.
Perfors tak paciens And dre thy destany c1568 Lauder Minor P. iii. 17. a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitl. F. xxx. 44.
And patience is comptit cowardnes a1605 Montg. Misc. P. viii. 43. 1602 Davidson Three Reformers 154.
That worthy gift of pacience … whilk is a constancie given of God 1616 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 287.
God … grant me pasiens to I heire from ȝour maiestie ?1672 M. Bruce Serm. in Edinb. Tolbooth 14.
I trow instead of waiting on, many of us comes to the far nook of our patience(2) 1456 Hay I. 170/34.
Punycioun to prove his pacience that he may be mare glorius crownyt in hevin a1500 Bk. Chess 332.
All this gret offens Amovit nocht this clerkis paciens 1534 Sources and Lit. Sc. Law 298. 1566 Cal. Sc. P. II. 300.
Th'envy off ambitious men … myght have place to exerce my pacience for a tyme a1570-86 J. Maitland Maitl. F. lxxxviii. 71.
Sua promptlie sall ȝour patience prevaill 1586 Warrender P. MS. 175.
God knawis how farre it essayit my patience quhen I met with that man c 1613 Haddington Corr. 124.
Ye haif tryit my pasyence hardly aneuch heirtofor(3) c1460 Wisd. Sol. (S.T.S.) 408.
God of his hie gracious paciens tholis synaris to ly in thare syne a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 1151 (Asl.). 1539 Liber Melros 627.
Andro be the patiens of God abbot of Melros(b) 1474 Bk. Carlaverock II. 436.
Wilȝhame be the paciencis of Gode abbot of [etc.](4) a1400 Leg. S. iii. 405.
And ȝet wil I With paciens a quhil here thé c1460 Thewis Wysmen 99.
The wysman … gouernys euir with paciens a1500 Henr. III. 141/46. a1500 Colk. Sow ii. 3.
I requyre All the hereris pardoun with pacience My noyous noyis [etc.] 1551 Hamilton Cat. 155.
Lat us ryn be pacience unto the battall that is set afore us c1552 Lynd. Mon. 115. 1560 Rolland Seven S. 7402.
Vpone na man with patience he micht luik 1571 Cal. Sc. P. III. 667.
To suffer with pacience to be absent from my wyff and child c1600 Montg. Suppl. i. .
Luif still in hope with pacience My gentill hairt(5) a1500 Henr. III. 126/22.
Thairfoir in patience … he … thankit God of all 1622-6 Bisset II. 373/11.
That wyse … king in paciens accepted thair ansueir — c1450 Cr. Deyng (S.T.S.) 134.
The joy of hevyne that in the paciens thar-of [sc. tribulation] we may wyne(6) c1450 Cr. Deyng (S.T.S.) 40.
Takyne in paciens that Gode sendis 1456 Hay I. 10/7.
[They] tuke all thair dede in pacience for the faith of Crist ?a1500 Remembr. Passion 480. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxv. 87. 1560 Rolland Seven S. To the Reidar 23.
This tale in patience tak — 1461 Liber Plusc. I. 387.
Soberly in paciens tak and gre a1540 Freiris Berw. 451.
Thairfoir be blyth and tak in pacience 1540 Lynd. Sat. 979 (B).
Is no remeid bot tak in pacience(7) c1450 Cr. Deyng (S.T.S.) 141.
A man suld … conforme hyme to haf paciens a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 415.
At Crist ȝour King leir to haue pacience c1500-c1512 Dunb. xx. 17. 1526 Douglas Corr. 109. 1531 Bell. Boece I. 279.
Better is to have pacience for ane time, than to lois our realme and liberte 1551 Hamilton Cat. 136.
We ar inducit to haif paciens in al adversiteis c 1666 Laing MSS. I. 350.
I will heve pasienc — 1526 Douglas Corr. 110.
I beseik ȝoure lordschip … to have … pacience of me at this tyme(8) c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 164. Id. lxix. 21 (M).
Than Patience sayis be not agast