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pa'tent or pat'ent, a. Open; expanded; evident; manifest; apparent. (Bot.) Spreading. Open to public perusal, — said of a document conferring some right or privilege, as, letters patent; appropriated by letters patent; restrained from general use. — Pat'ent, n. A letter patent, or letters patent; a writing securing to a person, for a term of years, the exclusive right to an invention.—?;, t. To secure the exclusive right of to the a person. One — to Pat'entee'', whom grant is made or a privi- | the lege secured by patent. — ' ca- Pat'en, re. The plate on | which the consecrated acbread in the Eucharist is; placed. — Pat'era, -er-a, re.; pi. -RjE, -re. An ancient saucer-like ve el of earthenware or metal. a. Patera. {Arch.) A circular dish of ornament, worked in relief on friezes, etc.— PateFla, pa-teKla, re.; pi. -lje, -le, E. pi. -las, -laz. {Anat.) The knee-pan: see Skeleton.; Paternal, pa-ter'nal, a. Pert, to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; derived from a father; hereditary. — Pater'nity, -nY-tY, re. The relation of a father to his off-spring; fatherhood; origination or authorship. — Pa'ter nos'ter, re. The Lord's Prayer. — Pa'triarch, -trY-ark, re. The father and ruler of a family, — applied to heads of families in ancient, esp. Biblical, history. {Eastern Churches.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops. — 'y, Patriarchal, -ic, a. Belonging, relating to, or po e ed by, patriarchs; subject to a patriarch. — Patriarchate, -at, n. Office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch; residence of a patriarch. — Patri 'dan, as -trish'an, a. Pert, or appropriate to a person of high birth; senatorial; noble, —re. A person of high birth or old family. — Patris' tic, -tical, a. Pert, to the ancient fathers of the Christian church. — Pafri- A cide, -rY-sid, re. The murder or murderer of a father; parricide. — Pat'rimony, -rY-mo-nY, n. A right or estate inherited from one's ancestors; a church estate or revenue. — Patrimo'nial, a. Pert, to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors. — Pat'ronym'ic, -nim'ik, n. A name derived from an ancestor; a modification of the father's name borne by the son. — — Pa'triot, -trY-ot, n. One who loves his country, and zealously supports it and its interests. — a. Devoted to the welfare of one's country; patriotic. — Patriotic, a. Full of patriotism; actuated by love of one's country.— Patriotism, -izm, n. Quality of of being patriotic; love of country.— Patois, pat-wO', the re. An uncultivated idiom; a provincial form of linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get, speech. — Pa'tron, -trun, n. {Bom. Antiq.) A ter who had freed his slave, and retained some rights over him after his emancipation; also, a man of tinct i on under whose protection another placed self. One who countenances, supports, or protects; an advocate; defender. — Pafronage, pafrun-ej, Special countenance or support: guardianship, a saint. — Pafronize, v. t. [-ized (-izd), -izing.] To act as patron toward, support, favor; to a ume the air of a superior and protector toward. — Paftern, n. An original or model proposed for tation; archetype; exemplar; a specimen; sample; instance; a quantity of cloth sufficient for a ment; figure or style of ornamental execution. (Founding.) A full-sized model around which mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal.— v. t. [patterned (-ternd), -TERMING.] To make imitation of some model; to copy; to serve as an ample to be followed. 300