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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pass \pass\, v. t.
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.
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she loved me for the dangers i had passed.
--shak.
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c to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to
take no note of; to disregard.
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please you that i may pass this doing. --shak.
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i pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
--dryden.
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d to transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
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and strive to pass . . .
their native music by her skillful art.
--spenser.
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whose tender power
passes the strength of storms in their most
desolate hour. --byron.
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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.
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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.
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i had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
--addison.
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waller passed over five thousand horse and foot
by newbridge. --clarendon.
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b to cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce;
hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
--shak.
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father, thy word is passed. --milton.
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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.
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3. to emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
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4. naut. to take a turn with a line, gasket, etc., as
around a sail in furling, and make secure.
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5. fencing to make, as a thrust, punto, etc. --shak.
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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 some one or to pass something
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.
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see also:
passed midshipman to pass a dividend to pass away to pass by to pass off to pass something on some one
to pass something upon some one to pass over
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