Passed midshipman

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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