Pasque Pasque noun [ Old French pasque .] See Pasch .

Pasque flower (Botany) , a name of several plants of the genus Anemone , section Pulsatilla . They are perennial herbs with rather large purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also campana .

Pasquil Pas"quil noun [ Italian pasquillo .] See Pasquin . [ R.]

Pasquil Pas"quil transitive verb [ R.] See Pasquin .

Pasquilant Pas"quil·ant noun A lampooner; a pasquiler. [ R.] Coleridge.

Pasquiler Pas"quil·er noun A lampooner. [ R.] Burton.

Pasquin Pas"quin noun [ Italian pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.] A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade .

The Grecian wits, who satire first began,
Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.

Dryden.

Pasquin Pas"quin transitive verb To lampoon; to satiraze. [ R.]

To see himself pasquined and affronted.

Dryden.

Pasquinade Pas`quin·ade" noun [ French pasquinade , Italian pasquinata .] A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay.

Pasquinade Pas`quin·ade" transitive verb To lampoon, to satirize.

Pass Pass intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Passed ; present participle & verbal noun Passing .] [ French passer , Late Latin passare , from Latin passus step, or from pandere , passum , to spread out, lay open. See Pace .] 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. "But now pass over [ i. e., pass on]." Chaucer.

On high behests his angels to and fro
Passed frequent.

Milton.

Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies passed .

Coleridge.

2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.

Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust.

Sir W. Temple.

3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.

Disturb him not, let him pass paceably.

Shak.

Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass .

Dryden.

The passing of the sweetest soul
That ever looked with human eyes.

Tennyson.

4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.

So death passed upon all men.

Rom. v. 12.

Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind.

I. Watts.

5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

Now the time is far passed .

Mark vi. 35

6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass ; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. "Let him pass for a man." Shak.

False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.

Felton.

This will not pass for a fault in him.

Atterbury.

7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed ; the bill passed both houses of Congress.

8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass .

9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. "The play may pass ." Shak.

10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass .

11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [ Obsolete] "This passes , Master Ford." Shak.

12. To take heed; to care. [ Obsolete]

As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.

Shak.

13. To go through the intestines. Arbuthnot.

14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. Mozley & W.

15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.

She would not play, yet must not pass .

Prior.

17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
[ Webster 1913 Suppl.]

To bring to pass , To come to pass . See under Bring , and Come . -- To pass away , to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away ." 2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am." Tennyson. -- To pass by , to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. -- To pass into , to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. -- To pass on , to proceed. -- To pass on or upon . (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect . "So death passed upon all men." Rom. v. 12. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them." Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass upon his life." Shak. -- To pass off , to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off . -- To pass over , to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.

Pass Pass transitive verb 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. "To pass commodiously this life." Milton.

She loved me for the dangers I had passed .

Shak.

(c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

Please you that I may pass This doing.

Shak.

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

Dryden.

(d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

And strive to pass . . .
Their native music by her skillful art.

Spenser.

Whose tender power
Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.

Byron.

(e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.

Addison.

Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

Clarendon.

(b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. Shak.

Father, thy word is passed .

Milton.

(c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. " Pass the happy news." Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

4. (Nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. Shak.

Passed midshipman . See under Midshipman. -- To pass a dividend , to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. -- To pass away , to spend; to waste. "Lest she pass away the flower of her age." Ecclus. xlii. 9. -- To pass by . (a) To disregard; to neglect . (b) To excuse; to spare; to overlook. -- To pass off , to impose fraudulently; to palm off. " Passed himself off as a bishop." Macaulay. -- To pass (something) on or upon (some one) , to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. "She passed the child on her husband for a boy." Dryden. -- To pass over , to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.

Pass Pass noun [ Confer French pas (for sense 1), and passe , from passer to pass. See Pass , intransitive verb ] 1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass .

"Try not the pass !" the old man said.

Longfellow.

2. (Fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. Shak.

3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

5. State of things; condition; predicament.

Have his daughters brought him to this pass .

Shak.

Matters have been brought to this pass .

South.

6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass ; a military pass .

A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

Kent.

7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. Shak.

8. Estimation; character. [ Obsolete]

Common speech gives him a worthy pass .

Shak.

9. [ Confer Passus .] A part; a division. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Pass boat (Nautical) , a punt, or similar boat. -- Pass book . (a) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser . (b) See Bank book . -- Pass box (Mil.) , a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. -- Pass check , a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning.

Pass Pass noun In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance.

Pass Pass intransitive verb In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

Pass-key Pass"-key` noun A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

Pass-parole Pass`-pa·role" noun [ French passe- parole .] (Mil.) An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

Passable Pass"a·ble adjective [ Confer French passable .] 1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable ; the stream is passable in boats.

His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel.

Shak.

2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.

With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable than another.

L'Estrange.

Could they have made this slander passable .

Collier.

3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.

My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent.

Dryden.

Passableness Pass"a·ble·ness noun The quality of being passable.

Passably Pass"a·bly adverb Tolerably; moderately.

Passacaglia Pas`sa·ca·glia Pas`sa*ca*glio noun [ Spanish pasacalle a certain tune on the guitar, prop., a tune played in passing through the streets.] (Mus.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

Passade, Passado Pas·sade", Pas·sa"do noun [ French passade ; confer Spanish pasada . See Pass , intransitive verb ] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. Shak.

2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

Passage Pas"sage noun [ French passage . See Pass , intransitive verb ] 1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.

What! are my doors opposed against my passage !

Shak.

2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

The ship in which he had taken passage .

Macaulay.

3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage .

4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [ R.] "Endure thy mortal passage ." Milton.

When he is fit and season'd for his passage .

Shak.

5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.

And with his pointed dart
Explores the nearest passage to his heart.

Dryden.

The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.

South.

6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.

The conduct and passage of affairs.

Sir J. Davies.

The passage and whole carriage of this action.

Shak.

7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. "In thy passages of life." Shak.

The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.

South.

8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.

How commentators each dark passage shun.

Young.

9. Reception; currency. [ Obsolete] Sir K. Digby.

10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.

No passages of love
Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore.

Tennyson.

11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed. "The passage of the Stamp Act." D. Hosack.

The final question was then put upon its passage .

Cushing.

In passage , in passing; cursorily. "These . . . have been studied but in passage ." Bacon. - - Middle passage , Northeast passage , Northwest passage . See under Middle , Northeast , etc. -- Of passage , passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds. "Birds of passage ." Longfellow. -- Passage hawk , a hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money , money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.

Syn. -- Vestibule; hall; corridor. See Vestibule .

Passager Pas"sa·ger noun [ See Passenger .] A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [ Obsolete] Ld. Berners.

Passageway Pas"sage·way` noun A way for passage; a hall. See Passage , 5.

Passant Pas"sant adjective [ French, present participle of passer . See Pass , intransitive verb ] 1. Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. [ Obsolete]

Many opinions are passant .

Sir T. Browne.

2. Curs...ry, careless. [ Obsolete]

On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop.

Sir P. Pett.

3. Surpassing; excelling. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

4. (Her.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

Passé Pas`sé" masc. Pas`sé"e fem. }, adjective [ French] Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passée belle. Ld. Lytton.

Passe partout Passe" par`tout" noun [ French, from passer to pass + partout everywhere.] 1. That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. [ Obsolete] Dryden.

2. A master key; a latchkey.

3. A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.

Passegarde Passe"garde` noun [ French] (Anc. Armor) A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

Passement Passe"ment noun [ French] Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.

Passementerie Passe·men"terie (E. pȧs*mĕn"trĭ; F. pä`s'mäN`t're") noun [ French] Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

Passementerie Passe·men"terie noun [ French] Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.

Passenger Pas"sen·ger noun [ Middle English & French passager . See Passage , and confer Messenger .] 1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak.

2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.

Passenger falcon (Zoology) , a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoology) , the common wild pigeon of North America ( Ectopistes migratorius ), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

Passenger mile Pas"sen·ger mile (Railroads) A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

Passenger mileage Passenger mileage (Railroads) Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

Passer Pass"er noun One who passes; a passenger.

Passer-by Pass`er-by" noun One who goes by; a passer.

Passeres Pas"se·res noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin passer a sparrow.] (Zoology) An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

Passeriform Pas·ser"i·form adjective (Zoology) Like or belonging to the Passeres.

Passerine Pas"ser·ine adjective [ Latin passerinus , from passer a sparrow.] (Zoology) Of or pertaining to the Passeres.

The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees.

Sydney Smith.

Passerine Pas"ser·ine noun (Zoology) One of the Passeres.

Passibility Pas`si·bil"i·ty noun [ Latin passibilitas : confer French passibilité .] The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.

Passible Pas"si·ble adjective [ Latin passibilis , from pati , to suffer: confer French passible . See Passion .] Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.

Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible .

Hooker.

Passibleness Pas"si·ble·ness noun Passibility. Brerewood.

Passiflora Pas"si·flo"ra noun [ New Latin , from Latin passio passion (fr. pati , passus , to suffer) + flos , floris , flower.] (Botany) A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ , which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

Passim Pas"sim adverb [ Latin ] Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.

Passing Pass"ing noun The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.

Passing bell , a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. Sir W. Scott. Longfellow.

Passing Pass"ing adjective 1. Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.

2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent. Chaucer. "Her passing deformity." Shak.

Passing note (Mus.) , a character including a passing tone. -- Passing tone (Mus.) , a tone introduced between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.

Passing Pass"ing adverb Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." Shak.

Passingly Pass"ing·ly adverb Exceedingly. Wyclif.

Passion Pas"sion noun [ French, from Latin passio , from pati , passus , to suffer. See Patient .] 1. A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion ); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18).

To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion , by many infallible proofs.

Acts i. 3.

2. The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action .

A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.

Locke.

3. Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents. [ R.]

Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.

Bacon.

4. The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion ; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. "A passion fond even to idolatry." Macaulay. "Her passion is to seek roses." Lady M. W. Montagu.

We also are men of like passions with you.

Acts xiv. 15.

The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions , or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.

Hutcheson.

The term passion , and its adverb passionately , often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything.

Cogan.

The bravery of his grief did put me
Into a towering passion .

Shak.

The ruling passion , be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Pope.

Who walked in every path of human life,
Felt every passion .

Akenside.

When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.

Addison.

5. Disorder of the mind; madness. [ Obsolete] Shak.

6. Passion week. See Passion week , below. R. of Gl.

Passion flower (Botany) , any flower or plant of the genus Passiflora ; -- so named from a fancied resemblance of parts of the flower to the instruments of our Savior's crucifixion.

» The flowers are showy, and the fruit is sometimes highly esteemed (see Granadilla , and Maypop ). The roots and leaves are generally more or less noxious, and are used in medicine. The plants are mostly tendril climbers, and are commonest in the warmer parts of America, though a few species are Asiatic or Australian.

Passion music (Mus.) , originally, music set to the gospel narrative of the passion of our Lord; after the Reformation, a kind of oratorio, with narrative, chorals, airs, and choruses, having for its theme the passion and crucifixion of Christ. -- Passion play , a mystery play, in which the scenes connected with the passion of our Savior are represented dramatically. -- Passion Sunday (Eccl.) , the fifth Sunday in Lent, or the second before Easter. -- Passion Week , the last week but one in Lent, or the second week preceding Easter. "The name of Passion week is frequently, but improperly, applied to Holy Week." Shipley.

Syn. -- Passion , Feeling , Emotion . When any feeling or emotion completely masters the mind, we call it a passion ; as, a passion for music, dress, etc.; especially is anger (when thus extreme) called passion . The mind, in such cases, is considered as having lost its self- control, and become the passive instrument of the feeling in question.

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