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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr & vb n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL passare, fr L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out lay open See {Pace}.] 1. 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 ``But now pass over [i. e., pass on].'' --Chaucer. 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}, to proceed. {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.
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