inexcitability†, imperturbability, inirritability†; even temper,
tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth [Coll.].
passiveness &c (physical inertness) 172; hebetude†, hebetation†;
impassibility &c (insensibility) 823; stupefaction.
coolness, calmness &c adj.; composure, placidity, indisturbance†,
imperturbation†, sang froid [Fr.], tranquility, serenity; quiet,
quietude; peace of mind, mental calmness.
staidness &c adj.; gravity, sobriety, Quakerism†; philosophy,
equanimity, stoicism, command of temper; self-possession, self-control,
self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of
mind.
submission &c 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance†,
endurance, longsufferance†, forbearance; longanimity†; fortitude;
patience of Job, patience on a monument [Twelfth Night], patience
'sovereign o'er transmuted ill' [Johnson]; moderation; repression of
feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint &c 751.
tranquillization &c (moderation) 174 [Obs.].
V. be composed &c adj.. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; take
things easily, take things as they come; take it easy, rub on, live and
let live; take easily, take cooly†, take in good part; aequam servare
mentem [Lat.].
bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave,
disregard.
tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby†; bear with, put up with,
take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit &c (yield) 725; submit with
a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest,
eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.
make light of, make the best of, make 'a virtue of necessity'
[Chaucer]; put a good face on, keep one's countenance; check &c 751;
check oneself.
compose, appease &c (moderate); 174; propitiate; repress &c
(restrain) 751; render insensible &c 823; overcome one's excitability,
allay one's excitability, repress one's excitability &c 825; master
one's feelings.
make oneself easy; make one's mind easy; set one's mind at ease,
set one's mind at rest.
calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.
be borne, be endured; go down.
Adj. inexcitable†, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible &c
(insensible) 823; unpassionate†, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable;
enduring &c v.; stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober,
sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate,
demure, cool-headed.
easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil,
serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative.
temperate &c (moderate) 174; composed, collected; unexcited,
unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned;
unoffended†; unresisting.
meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive &c 725; tame;
content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike†; gentle as a lamb;
suaviter in modo [Lat.]; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint;
armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.
Adv. like patience on a monument smiling at grief [Twelfth Night];
aequo animo [Lat.], in cold blood &c 823; more in sorrow than in anger.
Int. patience!, and shuffle the cards.
Phr. cool calm and collected, keep calm in the midst of a storm;
adversity's sweet milk, philosophy [Romeo and Juliet]; mens aequa in
arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite [Lat.] [Seneca]; quo me cumque
rapit tempestas deferor hospes [Lat.] [Horace]; they also serve who
only stand and wait [Milton].
SECTION II
PERSONAL AFFECTIONS