Pasitelean 
Pasitelean (pas-i-te'le-an), a. [< Pasiteles (see in Siberia, also a garden-flower, it is a low herb 
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an important school of Greek sculpture wliicn 8ide Also cal i e( | ea mpana, danc-flmter, and danesblood. 
was founded by Pasiteles in Rome toward the American pasque-flower, Amnwi* paten*,. Xuttal- 
close of the republic, and continued to nourish liana, foun 
under the early empire. The school was archaistic, 
seeking Inspiration in the works of the powerful Hellenic 
artists who preceded the bloom of art in the fifth century ; 
Orestes and Electra, Museo Nazionale, Naples. 
Specimen of the Pasitelean School of Sculpture. 
but with its studied archaism in proportions, attitudes, and 
types it combined careful work from the living model. 
Surviving works of the followers of Pasiteles exhibit real 
merit and charm, and rise above the feeble imitations of 
the later Hellenistic sculptors, 
paskt, See pasch. 
: , from Illinois northwestward. The species is 
also found in the Old World. Japanese pasque-flower, 
A. Japonica, a garden-flower in and from Japan, with rose- 
colored or white blossoms. 
pasquil (pas'kwil), . and a. [< It. pasqtiillo, 
dim. of pasquino, a lampoon: sea pasquin ,~] I. 
M. A lampoon or pasquinade ; a squib. 
Those things which that railing Germane hath heaped 
vp in his lend pasquid. Haklmjt's Voyages, I. 585. 
Witty pasnu-Us are thrown about, and the mountebanks 
have their stages at every corner. 
Evelyn, Diary, Jan., 1646. 
II. a. Relating to or of the nature of a lam- 
poon or pasquinade: as, pasquil literature. 
pasquil (pas'kwil), v. t. [< pasquil, .] Same 
as pasquinade. 
pasquilant, pasquillant (pas'kwil-ant), . [< 
pasquil + -ant.'] A writer of pasquils or pas- 
quinades; a satirist; a lampooner; a libeler. 
Coleridge. 
pasquiler, pasquiller (pas'kwil-er), . ^pas- 
quil + -iT 1 .] Same as pasquilant. Burton, 
Anat. of Mel., p. 149. 
pasquin (pas'kwin), . [< F. pasquin, a lam- 
poon, also the statue so called (Cotgrave), < It. 
pasquino, a lampoon, orig. a statue so called, 
"an old statue in Rome on whom all satires, 
pasquins, rayling rimes, or libels are fastned 
and fathered" (Florio); so named from Pas- 
quino, a tailor (others say a cobbler, and others 
again a barber), who lived about the end of the 
fifteenth century in Rome, and was noted for 
his caustic wit, and whose name, soon after his 
death, was transferred to a mutilated statue 
which had been dug up opposite his shop, on 
glycerin or similar sxibstaiices. and jeers pasted upon Pasquin were answered by similar 
Daanaeet . Same as pannaqe. effusions on the part of Marforio. By this system of thrust 
rJ /!,' Tn\A\ r, Tn Imf V>ol rm o-i n cr and parry the most serious matters were disclosed, aim 
paspaloid (pas pa-loid), a. In Dot., belonging the SSftHUoptota* persons attacked and defended. 
to or resembling the genus Paspalum. (/ Disraeli.) Also pasquinade. 
Paspallim (pas'pa-lum), n. [NL. (Linnams, Jn , ianu9 the emperor, in his book entitled "C^sares," 
1767), < Gr. TrdcuraAof, a kind of millet, said to be being as a pasquin or satire to deride all his predecessors, 
Holeus Sornhum < Trof, all, + Kakn, meal.] A feigned that they were all invited to a banquet of the gods, 
large genus of grasses of the tribe Panicete, hav- Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 79. 
ing commonly three glumes, and spikelets joint- pasquin (pas'kwin), v. t. [< pasqmn, .] To 
ed singly upon undivided branches of the inflo- pasquinade ; lampoon. 
rescence, forming narrow one-sided spikes. The It is not, my Lord, that any man delights to see himself 
species are variously estimated as from 160 to 300 in num- pasqnined and affronted by their inveterate scribblers, 
her, and are mainly natives of tropical America; a few Dryden, Ded. of Duke of Guise, 
are in Africa and Asia, with some naturalized in southern , j,. /,, !-. ,s/l'\ rYF tm<irniinnrl/- 
Europe. They are usually low grasses with roundish cori- pasquinade (pas-kw i-nad ), . L< t .pasquinade, 
aceous seed-like spikelets. Many species, especially those < It. pasqmnata, a pasquinade, < 1'asqmno, the 
in the southern United States, are hardy and valuable gtatue so called : see pasqviti.~\ Same as pus- 
pasture-grasses, as P. distichum, known as jmiit-grass, and ^ llin _ gyjL /nwcKWi Satire, etc. See lampoon. 
f^er'gr^Vn.SouTKn^w^ULSM^AMftta pasquinade (pas-k'wi-nad'), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
cultivated in Hungary. (See Hungary rice, under rice.) pasquinaded, ppT.pasquinadiny. [< pasquinade, 
M.] To satirize; lampoon; libel in pasqui- 
nades. Also pasquil. Smart. 
P. filiforme is the wire-grass of Jamaica, and P. conjuga 
tum the West Indian sour-grass or hilo-grass. See hureek, 
and millet coda (under millet). 
SRK^CT: fc-p* -L< msss^&s*s*& *^s" 
F.passepied,<passer, pass, + pied, < Ij.pes (ped-), 
foot: see pass and /oof.] Same as passepied. 
pasque, n. See pasch. 
pasque-flower (pask'flou"er), n. A plant, Ane- 
mone Pulsatilla, wild throughout Europe and 
i, Flowering Plant of American Pasque-flower (Anemone pattns 
var. Nuttallianti) ; 2, a leaf; a, the fruit ; *, one of tin; nutlets with 
the long plumose style. 
lampoons or pasquinades ; the author of a pas- 
quil. 
Now the roses on Leo XL's tomb really occupy a very 
subordinate position at its base ; but pasquinaders often 
maintained that the mors hidden the allusion the more 
terrible the import. N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 511. 
pass (pas), r. ; pret. and pp. passed or past, ppr. 
passing. [< ME,passen,pacen, < OF. passer, F. 
passer = Sp. pasar = Pg. passar = It. passare, < 
ML. passare, step, walk, pass, < L. passus, step : 
see pace 1 . In earlier use pace 1 and pass are 
merged.] I. intrans. 1. To come or go; move 
onward ; proceed (from one place to another) ; 
make one's way: generally followed by an ad- 
verb or a preposition indicating the manner or 
direction of motion or way by which one moves : 
as, to pass on (without stopping) ; to pass away, 
from, into, over, under, etc. When used without a 
qualifying expression, pass often signifies to go past a cer- 
tain person or place : as, I saw him to-day when he passed 
(that is, passed me, or the place where I was). 
Whoso took a mirour polisshed bryghte 
And sette it in a comune market-place, 
Than sholde he se ful many a figure pace 
By his mirour. Chaucer, Merchant s Tale, I. 340. 
And many passed to Venice. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 161. 
Sir Griffith Markham, after some time, was set at liberty, 
and passed beyond Sea, where he liv'd long after in mean 
account. Baker, Chronicles, p. 404. 
Now master Gascoigne, shooting very often, could neuer 
hitte any deare, yea and often times he let the heard passe 
by as though he had not seene them. 
Chron. of Gascoiane's Life (ed. Arber). 
From Assouan I rid to Phila:, passing near the quarries. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 119. 
pass 
Claudius pasxed in his general's dress of purple with 
ivory sceptre and oak-leaf crown. 
C. Elton, Origins of Eng. Hist., p. 308. 
Pass on, weak heart* and leave me. 
Tennyson, Come not when I am dead. 
2. To undergo transition; alter or change, 
either at once or by degrees, from one state or 
condition to another: with into or to before the 
word denoting the new state: as, during the 
operation the blue passes into green. 
A thing of beauty is a joy forever ; 
Its loveliness increases ; it will never 
Pass into nothingness. Keats, Endymion, i. 
The still affection of the heart 
Became an outward breathing type, 
That into stillness past again, 
And left a want unknown before. 
Tennyson, Miller's Daughter. 
When Alfred gave laws to Wessex . . . the conquerors 
had assimilated the conquered ; the British inhabitants of 
Wessex had passed into Englishmen. 
E. A. Freeman, Arner. Lects., p. 149. 
3. To move beyond the reach of observation, 
purpose, or action; vanish; disappear; hence, 
to depart from life; die: usually followed by 
away. 
Why! that I have a leyser and a space, 
Myn harm I wol confessen, er I pace. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 486. 
So pasteth, in the passing of a day, 
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 75. 
Vex not his ghost ; let him pass! he hates him much 
That would upon the rack of this tough world 
Stretch him out longer. Shak., Lear, v. 3. 314. 
He past ; a soul of nobler tone : 
My spirit loved and loves him yet. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ix. 
Reverence for the house of worship is passing away. 
J. F. Clarke, Self -Culture, p. 252. 
All passes, naught that has been is, 
Things good and evil have one end. 
A. C. Swinburne, Felise. 
4. To elapse ; be spent. 
No Age, ever since Gregory the Great, hath passed, where- 
in some or other hath not repined and murmured at the 
Pontifical Pomp of that Court. Howett, Letters, ii. 5. 
I love any discourse of rivers, and fish, and fishing ; the 
time spent in such discourse passes away very pleasantly. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 194. 
The time when the thing existed is the idea of that space 
of duration which passed between some known and fixed 
period of duration and the being of that thing. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. xv. 8. 
5. To receive approval or sanction ; undergo 
investigation or discussion successfully ; be ac- 
cepted or approved, (a) To be enacted, as by a legis- 
lative or other similar body ; become law : as, the bill 
passed. 
But I have heard it was this bill that post, 
And fear of change at home, that drove him hence. 
Tennyson, Walking to the Mail. 
The bill [forthe repeal of the Corn Laws] passed, but the 
resentment of his own party soon drove him [Sir Robert 
Peel] from office. J. R. Green, Short Hist. Eng., p. 800. 
(b) To gain or have acceptance ; be generally received or 
current : as, bank-notes pass as money. 
This false beauty will not pass upon men of honest 
minds and true taste. Steele, Spectator, No. B. 
False eloquence pasteth only where true is not under- 
stood. Felton. 
Were the premises good, the deduction might pass; but 
the premises are more than questionable. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 168. 
(c) To go successfully through an examination or inspec- 
tion ; specifically, in universities, togo successfully through 
an ordinary examination for a degree : as, he passed in math- 
ematics, but failed in chemistry, (d) To be regarded or 
considered ; be received in estimation oropinion (as) : usu- 
ally with far: as, he passed for a man of means. 
Let thy apparell not exceede, to passe for sumptuous cost, 
Nor altogether be too base, for so thy credit 's lost. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 296. 
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. 
Shak., M. of V., i. 2. 61. 
And wou'd have his Noise and Laughter pass for Wit, 
as t'other his Huffing and Blustring for Courage. 
Wyclterley, Plain Dealer, v. 1. 
Let me tell you, a woman labours under many disad- 
vantages who tries to pass for a girl at six and thirty. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 2. 
6. To go on; take place; occur; happen: as, 
to bring a thing to pass; to come to pass. 
In my next you shall hear how Matters pass here. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 22. 
Heaven is for thee too high 
To know what passes there ; be lowly wise. 
Milton, P. L, viii. 173. 
They are so far from regarding what passe* that then- 
imaginations are wholly turned upon what they have in 
reserve. Sirtft, On Conversation. 
7. To express or pronounce an opinion, judg- 
ment, verdict, or sentence : as, to pass upon the 
merits of a picture or a book. 
