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Patchwork

Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or clumsily composed; a thing patched up.

Patchy

Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

Pate

The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.

Pated

Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

Patefaction

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.

Patela

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

Patellar

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneecap.

Patellula

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

Patena

A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.

Patency

The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.

Patent

To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

Patent-hammered

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Patentable

Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

Patentee

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

Patera

A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices.

Paterfamilias

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

Paternal

Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.

Paternalism

The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal.

paternalistic

Benevolent but sometimes intrusive; -- used often of governments and the administration of large organizations. See paternal government.

Paternity

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.

Paternoster

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

Patesi

A religious as well as a secular designation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

path

A trodden way; a footway.

Pathan

A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan, especially of the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan.

pathematic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering.

Pathetic

Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

Pathfinder

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.

Pathless

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.

Pathmaker

One who, or that which, makes a way or path.

Pathogene Pathogen

Any microorganism which causes disease; a pathogenic organism; an infectious microorganism; a bacterium, virus, or other agent which can cause disease by infection; -- opposed to zymogene. The spelling pathogene is now archaic.

Pathogenic

Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.

Pathogeny

The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled. That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.

Pathognomonic

Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.

Pathognomy

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

pathologist

One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

pathology

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

Pathopoeia

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.

Pathos

That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

Pathway

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

Patible

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.

Patibulary

Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution.

Patience

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.

patina

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

patinate

to coat with a patina; to patinize.

Patio

A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

Patness

Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.

Patois

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

Patolli

An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Patonce

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

Patrial

Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.

Patriarch

The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

Patriarchal

Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.

Patriarchate

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.

Patriarchdom

The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.

Patriarchism

Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.

Patriarchy

The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.

Patrician

Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.

Patriciate

The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.

Patricidal

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

patrikin

one related on the father's side.

patrilineage

The line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family.

patrilineal

tracing descent through the male line; as, a patrilineal society.

Patrimonial

Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.

Patrimony

A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.

Patriot

Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.

Patriotic

Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.

Patriotism

Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.

Patripassian

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent pre/xistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.

Patristics

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Patrol

A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts. A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts. The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

patrol wagon

An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners.

patroller

An individual or a member of a group that patrols an area.

patrolling

The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.

Patrolman

One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.

Patron

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

Patronage

To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

Patronate

The right or duty of a patron; patronage.

Patronize

To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.

Patronizing

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patronomatology

That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.

Patronymic

A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.

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