compatient
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin compatients, present participle of compati. See compassion.
Adjective edit
compatient (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Suffering or enduring together.
- 1619, George Buck, The History of King Richard the Third:
- the same compatient and commorient fates and times
References edit
- “compatient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.