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▪ I. impatient, a. (n.)|ɪmˈpeɪʃənt|
Forms: 4–6 impacient, -cyent, inpacient, 5 -cyent, 6– impatient.
[a. OF. impacient, impatient, ad. L. impatient-em, f. im- (im-2) + patient-em suffering, pres. pple. of patī to suffer.]
1. Not patient; not bearing or enduring (pain, discomfort, opposition, etc.) with composure; wanting in endurance; irritable, irascible, easily provoked. Also transf. of action or speech: Indicating impatience or irritation.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 337 Þowgh þat men make moche deol in her angre, And ben inpacient in here penaunce. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iii. viii. 55 They nought ne couthe suffren but were yreful and inpacyent to al men aboute them. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. xcvii. 71 The Kynge was thanne more impacient, and blamed y⊇ Relygion of his wyfe in moost impacyent maner. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. ii. 287 Will you teare Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? 1666Pepys Diary 20 Aug., [He] is much impatient by these few days sickness. 1712Steele Spect. No. 438 ⁋4 You are of an impatient Spirit, and an impatient Spirit is never without Woe. 1851Trench Poems fr. East. Sources 194 And by faith allayed to meekness Every wish and thought impatient.
b. With of: Unable or unwilling to endure or put up with; intolerant of.
1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 758 Ambicious of aucthoritie, and impacient of partners. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. xxxviii. §1. 55 Ginger is most impatient of the coldnes of these..regions. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iv. iii. 152 Impatient of my absence..she fell distract. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 19. 121 The most ignorant are..most impatient of Advice. 1893Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 26 [Yaks] are extremely impatient of heat.
c. With inf. (obs. or arch.) or dependent clause.
(With inf., practically the opposite of 2 b.)
1565Earl of Bedford in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 209 He was so impatient to see those thyngs he sawe and were dayly broughte to his Eares. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 145 The Jewes impatient that forrieners should possesse their countrey, raised a new commotion. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 182 Impatient to stay till they would speake. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. xii. 299 Impatient to be thus forced out of his high work.
d. fig. (Said of things.)
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. 96 The see wexed right sore inpacyent and indigned. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xviii. (1633) 260 Impatient Lady Smocke..The nature of this plant [noli me tangere] is such, that if you touch but the cods when the seed is ripe, tho'..neuer so gently, yet will the seed fly all abroad with violence as disdaining to be touched. 1882Garden 11 Mar. 169/1 Cherry is the most impatient tree we have to deal with under glass.
2. That does not willingly endure delay; uneasy or restless in desire or expectation. Const. for.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. ii. 30 Tedious..As is the night before some Festiuall, To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not weare them. 1599― Hen. V, iv. ii. 52 Their executors, the knauish Crowes, Flye o're them all, impatient for their howre. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 702 Strong Desires th' impatient Youth invade. 1728Pope Dunc. iii. 30 Impatient for the day. 1878Morley Carlyle 174 Headlong and impatient souls. 1899Q. Rev. Jan. 193 He has no impatient desire for the hurry of modern improvements.
b. With inf. Restlessly desirous, eagerly longing. (In quot. 1680 with dependent clause.)
1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 238 All impatient to speake and not see. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 3 All stood ready to fall on, Impatient who should have the Honour To plant an Ensign first upon her. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. to Mrs. Thistlethwaite 25 Sept. (1887) I. 266, I am impatient to see the curiosities of this famous city. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. ix. 180 Impatient to recover the lost jewel.
c. transf. and fig. Characterized by, or attended with, impatience of delay.
1703Rowe Ulyss. iii. i. 1230 This one impatient Minute. 1791Cowper Iliad viii. 304 Teucer, wide-straining his impatient bow. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Detached Th. Bks., The five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready.
†3. ? Intolerable, ‘not to be borne’ (J.). Obs. rare.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. i. 44 Ay, me! deare Lady, which the ymage art Of ruefull pitty and impatient smart. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. x. 204 What absurd conceits they will swallow in their literals, an impatient example wee have in our owne profession.
B. as n. An impatient person. (Sometimes with play on patient n.)
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. vii. 67 The poor synner ought not to dyspayre hym, how be it that the sensualyte complayneth hym an impacyent. 1580Lupton Sivqila 130 When the Surgeon came before the Judge, and saw his poore Impatient there. 16..Seasonable Serm. 39 (T.) Some ignorant impatients, when they have found themselves to smart with God's scourge. 1893Westm. Gaz. 9 June 2/2 What the Unionist ‘impatients’ wants to get on at once to Clause 9.
▪ II. imˈpatient, v. rare.
[f. prec.: cf. F. impatienter, refl. s'impatienter to lose patience.]
a. † trans. To await with impatience.
b. refl. To become impatient, to lose patience. Hence † imˈpatiented ppl. a., awaited with impatience.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthenissa (1676) 382 As soon as the impatiented hour came, I went. Ibid. 538 At length the so impatiented night and hour came. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary II. 54 Amiable hosts, who did not impatient themselves even at the weather. |