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tolerate

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tolerate  \Tol"er*ate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tolerated};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Tolerating}.]  [L.  toleratus  p.  p.  of  tolerare,  fr 
  the  same  root  as  tollere  to  lift  up  tuli,  used  as  perfect  of 
  ferre  to  bear,  latus  (for  tlatus),  used  as  p.  p.  of  ferre  to 
  bear,  and  E.  thole.  See  {Thole},  and  cf  {Atlas}, 
  {Collation},  {Delay},  {Elate},  {Extol},  {Legislate}, 
  {Oblate},  {Prelate},  {Relate},  {Superlative},  {Talent}, 
  {Toll}  to  take  away  {Translate}.] 
  To  suffer  to  be  or  to  be  done  without  prohibition  or 
  hindrance;  to  allow  or  permit  negatively,  by  not  preventing; 
  not  to  restrain;  to  put  up  with  as  to  tolerate  doubtful 
  practices. 
 
  Crying  should  not  be  tolerated  in  children.  --Locke. 
 
  We  tolerate  them  because  property  and  liberty,  to  a 
  degree,  require  that  toleration.  --Burke. 
 
  Syn:  See  {Permit}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tolerate 
  v  :  put  up  with  something  or  somebody  unpleasant;  "I  cannot  bear 
  his  constant  criticism";  "The  new  secretary  had  to  endure 
  a  lot  of  unprofessional  remarks"  [syn:  {endure},  {stomach}, 
  {bear},  {stand},  {brook},  {abide},  {suffer},  {put  up}]




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