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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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