passionate 
| huii._'li jnnotiniuilr mid often wronghcaded, he [Jeremy 
Collier] wan H singularly clear OODtvoYUflsUst, 
Mariiulaii, Leigh Hunt 
We are passionate advocates of our wrong opinion be- 
cause it U our. W. It. (Jrey, Misc. Estuiyit, lt ser., p. 211. 
<M slnmiuif or exciting strong emotion; highly excited; 
\rlieiiu-iit ; warm. 
Nephew, what means this pastinnate discount', 
This peroration with sui'li circumstance? 
Khiik.. -J lien. VI., 1.1. 104. 
one iii whom persuasion and belief 
Had ripened into faith, and faith hei-nn 
A paxnanate intuition. Wirrdswurth, Excursion, iv. 
Strangers have wept to hear his passionate notes. 
Shelley, Alastor. 
(ci Swayed by love ; consumed with passion. 
Judge, madam, what the condition of a passionate man 
must he, that can approach the hand only of her he dies 
for, when her heart is inaccessible. 
Stetle, Lying Lover, I. 1. 
(</t) Emotional ; susceptible. 
Thou art Passionate ; 
Hast thou heen brought up with girls? 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, II. 4. 
( t) Changeful; capricious; of many moods. 
You, sweet, have the power 
To make me patsionate as an April day. 
/'".', Witch of Edmonton, II. 2. 
(/t) Compassionate. 
This passionate humour of mine. 
Shall. , Rich. HI., I. 4. 121 (ed. Knight). 
(fft) Sorrowful ; pitiful. 
Amphlalus, ... in his noble heart melting with com- 
passion at so passionate a sight, desired him to withhold 
his hands. Sir r. Sidney, Arcadia, Ml. 
she [Lady Constancel is sad and passionate at your high- 
ness' tent. Shak., K. John, 11. 1. 544. 
= Syn. (a) Irritable, etc. (see irascible), hot-headed, hot, 
tlery, violent, choleric. (6) Impassioned, ardent, fervent, 
glowing, burning, impetuous. 
passionately (pash'on-at-li), adr. In a pas- 
sionate manner, in any sense of that word. 
passionateness (pash'on-at-nes), n. The state 
or character of being passionate or subject to 
passion. 
passionato (pas-i-6-na'to), a. [It.: seepo*- 
siiiiiii/i-.] Passionate: in music, noting a pas- 
sage to be rendered with emotional intensity. 
passioned (pash'ond), p. a. [< passion + -e<&. 
Cf. impassioned.] 1. Moved by passion ; vio- 
lently affected. 
Diversly passioned is the lover's hart, 
Now pleasaunt hope, now dread and grievous fere. 
Sir T. Mare, Int. to Utopia, p. Ixxii. 
As they read, . . . (Mary's] colour changed, she seemed 
deeply passioned. K. W. Enxon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvlll. 
2. Expressing passion. 
Nor sigh of his, nor phtint, nor passion'd moan. 
Keats, Endymlon, II. 
passion-flower (pash'on-ttou'er), n. Any plant 
of the genus Passiflora. The common blue passion- 
Flowering Branch of Passion-flower (Pasttfera itttarnata). 
a, the fruit (may-pop). 
flower Is P. esmlea, from Brazil. P. incarnata is the 
passion-flower of the southern United States, the fruits of 
whidi are known as may-pops. Also called passion-pine. 
passioning (pash'on-ing), . [Verbal n. of 
passion, r.] Tlie state of being affected with 
passion ; the act of giving vent to passion ; a 
passionate utterance or expression. 
And Burns, with pungent passioning* 
Set In his eyes. Mrs. Brooding, Vision of Poets. 
Passionist (pash'on-ist), . [= F. passioimiste = 
Sp. pasionista ; as passion + -isf.] A member of 
a Roman Catholic order, called in full "Congre- 
gation of the Discalced Clerks of the most holy 
Cross and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 ' 
The order was founded by Paolo della Croce In 1720 In 
Italy, and has since spread on the Continent and into 
Great Britain, the United States, etc. In addition to the 
three ordinary vows, they pledge the utmost teal in keep- 
ing fresh the memory of the passion of Christ. 
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passionless (|iah'<>ii-l<'s), n. [(passion + -leti8.] 
Void of passion; not easily r.vilrd to anger; 
of a calm temper. 
The Queen . . . glanced at him, thought him cold, 
High, self-contain'd, and passiindett. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
passion-music (pash'on-mu'zik), n. The mu- 
sic of a passion-play ; a form of cantata or ora- 
torio treating of the sufferings and death of 
Christ. The Idea of such works appeared in very early 
Christian times, having a strictly liturgical origin. Its later 
development has tended somewhat toward concert-mu- 
sic. The personages usually Introduced are the Evangelist 
or Narrator, the Saviour, the Disciples, the People, etc. ; al- 
legorical or Idealized characters also occur. Recitatives, 
solos, duets, choruses, and even Instrumental numbers, are 
employed as In other oratorios, but, at least In the German 
passions, the liturgical style controls erery element ; hence 
chorals are often Introduced for the use of the congregation 
or audience. The most noted example Is the " Passion ac- 
cording to St. Matthew" of J. s. Bach. Also called pas. 
sion-oratorio, or simply passion, 
passion-oratorio (pash'gn-or-a-t6'ri-6), . 
Same as passion-mimic. 
passion-play (pash'on-pla), n. A mystery or 
miracle-play representing the different scenes 
in the passion of Christ. The passion-play Is still 
extant In the periodic representations at Oberammergau, 
in the Bavarian highlands, perhaps the only example to be 
found at the present day. 
Passion-tide (pash'on-tld), n. In the Bom. 
Catli. calendar, the last two weeks of Lent, com- 
prising Passion Week and Holy Week. 
passion-vine (pash'on-vin), n. Same as pas- 
xion-fltnrer. 
passive (pas'iv), a. [< F. passif= Sp. pasiro 
= Pg. It. passivo (=. D. passiff = G. 8w. Dan. 
passiv, in gram.), < L. passivun, serving to ex- 
press the Buffering of an action (paxsivum ver- 
Imm, a passive verb); in LL. lit. capable of suf- 
fering or feeling: < pati, pp. passus, suffer: see 
passion, patient."} 1. Suffering; not acting; in- 
active; receiving or capable of receiving im- 
pressions from external objects. 
In the reception of simple ideas, the understanding Is 
for the most part passive. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. 1. { 25. 
I hid my head within a Convent, there 
Lay patutive as a dormouse In midwinter. 
Wordsworth, The Borderers, Iv. 
2. Receptive; unresisting; not opposing; re- 
ceiving or suffering without resistance : as, pas- 
sive obedience; passive submission to the laws. 
Half the duty of a Christian in this life consists in the 
exercise of passive graces. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836X I. 752. 
The sweet degrees that this brief world affords 
To such as may the passive drugs of it 
Freely command. Shak., T. of A., iv. 8. 254. 
Passive to his holy will, 
Trust I In my Master still, 
Even though he slay me. 
Whatier, Barclay of Ury. 
3. In gram., expressive of the suffering or en- 
during of some action, or the being affected by 
some action: applied to a derivative mode of 
conjugation, by which that which is the object 
of the other or "active" form is made the sub- 
ject of the enduring of the verbal action: thus, 
Lydia a me amatur, 'Lydia is loved by me,' is 
corresponding passive to ego Lydiam amo, 'I 
love Lydia.' A nearly complete passive conjugation is 
formed especially in Latin ; and the name passive is given 
also to the equivalent verb-phrases In other languages, as 
English, French, and German. Abbreviated pass. Pas- 
sive bonds. See active bonds, under active. Passive 
Commerce. See active camtnerce, under active. Passive 
congestion. Same aa passive hyperemia (which see, un- 
Aerhyperemia). Passive debt, a debt upon which, by 
agreement between the debtor and creditor, no interest is 
payable, as distinguished from artivedrbt that is, a debt 
upon which Interest is payable. Whartun. Passive fund. 
See/undi, 2. Passive hyperemia. See hyperemia. 
Passive insufficiency of a muscle, insufficient length 
of a muscle when it is entirely relaxed to allow, In certain 
postures of the joints concerned, complete contraction 
of the antagonists : thus, the extensors of the lingers are 
too short to allow complete flexion of the fingers when 
there Is much flexion at the wrist. Passive intellect. 
See intellect, 1. Passive motion. See motion. Pas- 
sive obedience. See obedience. Passive operations 
(milit.), operations undertaken solely to repel an enemy's 
attack. Passive power (potentia passiva, in Aquinas, 
perhaps In early trans, from Aristotle's "Metaphysics," 
cap. VJ], a faculty of receiving some impression from with- 
out, or of undergoing some change. Passive prayer, 
among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the 
intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet and yield- 
Ing only to the impulses of grace. Passive righteous- 
ness. See riyhtetnimea. Passive title, in Scots lav, a 
title incurred by an heir in heritage who does not enter as 
heir In the regular way, and therefore Incurs liability for 
the whole debts of deceased, Irrespective of the assets. 
Palerson. Passive trust. See trust. = Syn. 1. Inert, qui- 
escent, inactive. 2. Submissive, patient, long-suffering, 
stoical. 
passively (pas' iv-li), flrfr. 1. In a passive man- 
ner; without action; unresistingly. 2. As a 
passport 
passive verb; in the passive voice: opposed to 
<n't ifi h/. 
passiveness (pas'iv-nes), n. 1. The state or 
property of being passive, or of receiving im- 
|in-ssiouB from extemal agents or causes : as, 
the passivenens of mutter. 2. Passibility; ca- 
pacity of suffering. 
You know a spirit cannot wounded be, 
Nor wear such marks of human )*usivrncssc. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, xiv. 1W. 
We shall \oKoatpassiveness with our being. 
Decay o.f Christian Piety. 
3. Patience ; calmness ; unresisting submission ; 
lack of power to act, or omission to act. 
That we can feed this mind of ours 
In a V{K passiveness. 
Wordsworth, Expostulation and Keply. 
passivity (pa-siv'j-ti), v. [= F. passivitd, pas- 
MM t(' = lt. passiviia, < LL. as if 'passitita(t-)s, 
< L. passiwi, passive: see paxttire.] Same as 
passirenrSH. 
pass-key (pas'kfi), n. 1. A key for opening 
several locks; a master-key ; a skeleton key. 
2. A latch-key. 
pass-lambt (pas'lam), n. The paschal or Pass- 
over lamb. 
Tiler's not a House but bath som body slain, 
Saue th' Israelites, whose doors were markt before 
With sacred Pass-tomb's sacramentall gore. 
Sylvester, it. of Dn Bartas's Weeks, U., The Lawe. 
passless(pas'les), a. [< pass + -less.'} Having 
no pass or passage. Coicley, Plagues of Egypt. 
passman (pas'man), n.; pi. passmen (-men). [< 
pass + man.] lia the British universities, a stu- 
dent who passes for his degree without honors. 
passmaster (pas'mas'ter), n. The officer of a 
parish or poor-law district who passes or trans- 
fers paupers from the parish in which they are 
found to their own parish or union. [Eng.] 
The Pass-Mauler for the City of London. 
Kibton-Tvrner, Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 241. 
Passover (pss'6-v^r), . and a. [<.pag* + over; 
tr. Heb. pesach (L. pascha, etc.), a passing 
over: see pouch.] I. n. 1. An annual feast of 
the Jews, instituted to commemorate the escape 
of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting 
the first-born of the Egyptians, "passed over" 
the houses of the Israelites, which were marked 
with the blood of the paschal lamb. It was cele- 
brated on the evening of the 14th day of Ablb or Nlsan, the 
first month of the sacred year. The name Is also used, by 
extension, to Include the seven days that followed (from 
the 15th to the 21st of Mson), during which the Israelites 
were permitted to eat only unleavened bread ; and hence 
the Passover Is also known as the "feast of unleavened 
bread." Every householder with his family ate on the 
first evening a lamb killed by the priest (Ex. xii.X which 
was served up without breaking the bones. 
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee 
and to thy sons for ever. . . . And it shall come to pass, 
when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by 
this service ? That yc shall say, It Is the sacrifice of the 
Lord's passnvrr, who passed over the houses of the chil- 
dren of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, 
and delivered our houses. Ex. xil. 24, 26, 27. 
How could the Jewish congregations of old be put In 
mind ... by their yearly Pansover what farewell they 
took of the land of Egypt? Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. n. 
2. [I. e.] The sacrifice offered at the feast of the 
Passover; also, the paschal lamb. 
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of 
the second month. 1 1 'hi on. xxx. 15. 
The K I ngdom of God . . . was remarkably taken from 
them (the Jews] within so many years after Christ the 
true Passover was slain by them as had passed from their 
first Passover after their going out of Jtgypt to their en- 
trance into Canaan. StiUinyjIeet, Sermons, I. Till. 
3. [/. c.] That which is passed over. [Rare.] 
I am, It may be, a little of a precisian, and I wish to 
Heaven I was malr worthy of the name ; but let that be a 
passover, I have stretched the duties of a serving-man aa 
far as my northern conscience will permit. 
Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, xlv. 
II. a. Of or pertaining to the Passover: as. 
I'assorer cake or bread (the cake of unleavened 
bread eaten at the Passover). 
pass-parole (pas'pa-rol' ), n. Milit. , a command 
given at the head < >t' an army and communicated 
by word of mouth to the rear. 
passport (pas'port), n. [Formerly also po#por , 
iiaitsfjmrt ; = ap.pasaporte = Pg. passaporte = 
It. passaporto = O. passport, < F. passeport, 
a passport, a safe-conduct, sea-letter, etc., < 
passer, pass, + port, port, harbor: seeporf 1 .] 
1. A document issued by competent civil au- 
thority, granting permission to the person 
specified in it to travel, or authenticating his 
right to protection. In some state* no person Is al- 
lowed to leave the country without a passport from his 
government, but the regulations of different jurisdictions 
regarding the use of passports have varied much, and of 
late years have exhibited a tendency toward a relaxation 
