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. [Obs.]
``This passes, Master Ford.'' --Shak.
12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.]
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} 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.
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. (Naut.) 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.
``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. [Obs.]
Common speech gives him a worthy pass. --Shak.
9. [Cf. {Passus}.] A part; a division. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{Pass boat} (Naut.), 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.