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Webster 1913 Edition

Tolerate

Tol′er-ate

,
Verb.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tolerate

TOL'ERATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. tolero, from tollo, to lift.] To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hinderance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; as, to tolerate opinions or practices. The protestant religion is tolerated in France, and the Roman Catholic in Great Britain.
Crying should not be tolerated in children.
The law of love tolerates no vice, and patronizes every virtue.

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