Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 22
Pasch (n.) Alt. of Pascha.
Pascha (n.) The passover; the feast of Easter.
Pasch egg. See Easter egg, under Easter.
Pasch flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.
Pasch (n.) The Jewish feast of the Passover [syn: Pasch, Pascha].
Pasch (n.) The Christian festival of Easter [syn: Pasch, Pascha].
Paschal (a.) 踰越節的；復活節的 Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs. -- Longfellow.
Paschal candle (R. C. Ch.), A large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter.
Paschal flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque.
Paschal (a.) Of or relating to Passover or Easter; "paschal lamb".
Paschal mystery () 逾越奧蹟 The Paschal Mystery is God’s plan for the salvation of mankind, as fulfilled in the passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has shown us that death does not have the final word.
The Eucharist As a Remembrance.
We may be most aware of the Pascal Mystery in it in the liturgical seasons and the celebration of the sacraments. In particular, the celebration of the Eucharist is a direct remembrance of the Pascal Mystery.
Liturgy is always in the first place communion or fellowship with Jesus Christ. Every liturgy, not just the celebration of the Eucharist, is an Easter in miniature. Jesus reveals his passage from death to life and celebrates it with us.
Paseng (n.) The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.
Pash (v. t.) (v. i.) 【英】【方】猛撞 To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces. [Obs.] -- P. Plowman. "I'll pash him o'er the face." -- Shak.
Pash (n.) 【廢】【方】頭 The head; the poll. [R.] "A rough pash." -- Shak.
Pash (n.) A crushing blow. [Obs.]
Pash (n.) A heavy fall of rain or snow. [Prov. Eng.]
Pash (n.) (Slang.) 【英】【俚】熱情 An infatuation for another person; crush.
Pash (n.) (Slang.) The object of such a passion.
Pasha (n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.
Pashalic (n.) The jurisdiction of a pasha.
Pashaw (n.) See Pasha.
Pasigraphic (a.) Alt. of Pasigraphical.
Pasigraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.
Pasigraphy (n.) A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.
Pasilaly (n.) A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.
Pask (n.) See Pasch.
Paspy (n.) A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure.
Pasque (n.) See Pasch.
Pasquil (n.) See Pasquin.
Pasquil (v. t.) See Pasquin.
Pasquilant (n.) A lampooner; a pasquiler.
Pasquiler (n.) A lampooner.
Pasquin (n.) A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.
Pasquin (v. t.) To lampoon; to satiraze.
Pasquinade (n.) A lampoon or satirical writing.
Pasquinade (v. t.) To lampoon, to satirize.
Passed (imp. & p. p.) of Pass.
Passing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pass.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
Pass (v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
Pass (v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
Pass (v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
Pass (v. i.) To take heed; to care.
Pass (v. i.) To go through the intestines.
Pass (v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
Pass (v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
Pass (v. t.) 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.
Pass (v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
Pass (v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
Pass (v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
Pass (v. t.) 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.
Pass (v. t.) 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.
Pass (v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
Pass (v. t.) 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.
Pass (v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
Pass (v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
Pass (v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
Pass (v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Pass (v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
Pass (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
Pass (v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
Pass (v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.
Pass (v. i.) 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.
Pass (v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
Pass (v. i.) Estimation; character.
Pass (v. i.) A part; a division.
Passable (a.) 可通行的，可通過的 [Z]；過得去的，尚可的；合格的 Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. -- Shak.
Passable (a.) 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.
Passable (a.) Such as may be accepted or allowed to pass without serious objection; adequate; acceptable; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. -- Dryden.
Passable (a.) Able to be passed or traversed or crossed; "the road is passable" [ant: impassable, unpassable].
Passable (a.) About average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary" [syn: adequate, passable, fair to middling, tolerable].
Passableness (n.) The quality of being passable.
Passably (adv.) 可通行地；尚可地；也還過得去地 Tolerably; moderately. Passacaglia
Passably (adv.) To a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably].
Passacaglia (n.) Alt. of Passacaglio.
Passacaglio (n.) (Mus.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne. Passade
Passade (n.) Alt. of Passado.
Passado (n.) (Fencing) A pass or thrust. -- Shak.
Passado (n.) (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
Passage (n.) 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.
Passage (n.) 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.
Passage (n.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
Passage (n.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy mortal passage." -- Milton.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage. -- Shak.
Passage (n.) 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.
Passage (n.) 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.
Passage (n.) 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.
Passage (n.) 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.
Passage (n.) Reception; currency. [Obs.] -- Sir K. Digby.
Passage (n.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. -- Tennyson.
Passage (n.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
Passage (n.) In parliamentary proceedings:
Passage (n.) (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.
Passage (n.) (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.
Passage (n.) The act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage, transition].
Passage (n.) A section of text; particularly a section of medium length.
Passage (n.) A way through or along which someone or something may pass.
Passage (n.) The passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: enactment, passage].
Passage (n.) A journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days" [syn: passage, transit].
Passage (n.) 6: a short section of a musical composition [syn: passage,
musical passage]
Passage (n.) A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: passage, passageway].
Passage (n.) A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: passage, passing].
Passage (n.) The motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing, passage].
Passage (n.) 10: the act of passing something to another person [syn: passage, handing over]
Passage, () Denotes in Josh. 22:11, as is generally understood, the place where the children of Israel passed over Jordan. The words "the passage of" are, however, more correctly rendered "by the side of," or "at the other side of," thus designating the position of the great altar erected by the eastern tribes on their return home. This word also designates the fords of the Jordan to the south of the Sea of Galilee (Judg. 12:5, 6), and a pass or rocky defile (1 Sam. 13:23; 14:4). "Passages" in Jer. 22:20 is in the Revised Version more correctly "Abarim" (q.v.), a proper name.
PASSAGE. () A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.
Passage (n.) (Connecting way) (B2) [ C ] (Also passageway), 過道，走廊 A usually long and narrow part of a building with rooms on one or both sides, or a covered path that connects places.
// A narrow passage led directly through the house into the garden.
// The bathroom's on the right at the end of the passage.
Passage (n.) (Connecting way) [ C ] （體內的）管道，通道 A hollow part of the body through which something goes.
// The nasal passages.
// The anal passage.
Passage (n.) (Part) (B2) [ C ] （文章的）段落；（音樂的）樂節 A short piece of writing or music that is part of a larger piece of work.
// Several passages from the book were printed in a national newspaper before it was published.
Passage (n.) (Travel) [ U ] (Formal) 旅行；（尤指）轉移 Travel, especially as a way of escape.
// The gunman demanded a plane and safe passage to an unspecified destination.
Passage (n.) (Travel) [ S ] (Old-fashioned) （尤指海上的）旅程，航程 A journey, especially over the sea.
// He had booked his passage to Rio de Janeiro.
Work your passage (Old-fashioned) 在船上做工以抵償船費 To do work on a ship during your trip instead of paying for a ticket.
Passage (n.) (Movement) (C2) [ U ] 通過，穿過 An act of moving through somewhere.
// Many meteors disintegrate during their passage through the atmosphere.
// The government prohibits the passage of foreign troops and planes across its territory.
Passage (n.) (Time) The passage of time literary時間的流逝 The process of time going past.
// Memories fade with the passage of time.
Passage (n.) (Law) [ U ] (Formal) （尤指新法律的）通過 The official approval of something, especially a new law.
// He again urged passage of a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.
Passager (n.) A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs.] -- Ld. Berners.
Passageway (n.) A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
Passageway (n.) A passage between rooms or between buildings.
Passageway (n.) A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: passage, passageway].
Passant (a.) 向前直走姿勢的 Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. [Obs.]
Many opinions are passant. -- Sir T. Browne.
Passant (a) Cursory, careless. [Obs.]
On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop. -- Sir P. Pett.
Passant (a.) Surpassing; excelling. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Passant (a.) (Her.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
Passant (a.) In walking position with right foreleg raised.
Compare: Old-fashioned
Old-fashioned (a.) Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl; old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses. "Old-fashioned men of wit." -- Addison.
This old-fashioned, quaint abode. -- Longfellow.
Old-fashioned (a.) Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded [2]; out-of-date. [Narrower terms: old-fashioned, out of fashion (predicate), out of style (predicate), passe, passee.]
Syn: antique, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out-of-date.
Old-fashioned (a.) Unfashionably out of date; out of style. [Narrower terms: unfashionable (vs. fashionable)]
Syn: demode, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee. Old fashioned
Old fashioned, old-fashioned (n.) A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry.
Passe (a.) Alt. of Passee.
Passee (a.) Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle. -- Ld. Lytton.
Passee (a.) Same as old-fashioned, a., 2.
Syn: antique, demode, old-fashioned, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out-of-date, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe.
Passee (a.) Past; -- used appositively; as, time passe.
Passee (a.) Out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passee].
Passegarde (n.) [F.] (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.
Passel (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Passel (n.) 【方】甚多 A large number or group of people or things.
Passel (n.) A large number or amount.
Passel (n.) (US) (Informal) A large group of people or things.
‘A passel of journalists.’
Passement (n.) [F.] Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. -- Sir W. Scott.
Passementerie (n.) Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.
Passementerie (n.) [F.] Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.
Passementerie (n.) A decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt" [syn: trimming, trim, passementerie].
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