PATIATE VERB to suffer from an illness or disability ...1653 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY irregularly from Latin patī (to suffer) + -ate FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1653 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...if black, it threatens him with much affliction in the genitals and privy parts; if it arise above the flesh as a lentil, though he patiate infirmites, yet he shall recover. To a woman it predicts weaknesse of the reins..." From: Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The Symmetrical Proportions and Signal Moles of the Body, Fully and accurately handled; with their Natural-Predictive Significations. A Treatise of the Moles of the Body of Man and Woman, XIX - Richard Saunders
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