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infancy by liis relations, was brought up by the charity 
of the nuns of Our Lady of Soiffons, in an out-houfe de¬ 
pendent on their convent. When he had grown to 
man’s eftate, he embraced the monaftic life among the 
Benedictines of the abbey of Corbie, where he applied 
with great diligence to his ftudies, diftinguilhed himfelf 
in the polemic conferences and deputations of his time, 
and wrote feveral books. So high was the reputation 
which he acquired for learning and virtue, that he was 
eleCted abbot of his monaftery in the year 844, when he 
was only in deacon’s orders, his humility preventing him 
from entering into the order of priefthood. He did not 
retain this fituation, however, for any confiderable length 
of time ; but, in confequence of fome differences which 
took place between him and the religious of his houfe, 
refigned his dignity, and returned to the condition of a 
fimple monk, fpending the remainder of his life in the 
exercife of the cloifter, clofe ftudy, and the compofition 
of various works. He died in the year 865. 
Dupin fays, that he “was a man of great piety and 
learning, who wrote in a clear, neat, and elegant, ftyle. 
He was well-read both in ecclefiaftical and profane au¬ 
thors. He pofTeffed good natural abilities ; only it may 
perhaps be faid, that he was rather too myftical.” Mo- 
fheim defcribes him as one “ who was conftantly em¬ 
ployed either in inventing or patronizing the raoft ex¬ 
travagant fancies.” The firft work which he gave to the 
public was a treatife “concerning the Sacrament of the 
Body and Blood of Chrift,” compofed by him in the 
year 831. In this performance he pretended to explain 
with precifion the doCtrine of the church on this head, 
maintaining that, after the confecration of the bread 
and wine in the Lord’s fupper, nothing remained of tliefe 
fymbols but the outward figure, under which the body 
and blood of Chrift were really and locally prefent; and 
that the body of Chrift thus prefent in the eucharift, 
was th e fame body that was born of the Virgin, that fujfered 
upon the crofs, and was raifedfrom the dead. That this 
doCtrine was then new, may be concluded from the 
great aftonifliment which it excited, and the general op- 
pofition which it mCt with from the learned men of the 
age, among whom were Rabanus Maurus, Ratramn, or 
Bertramn, John Scotus Erigena, Heribald, and others. 
In Mofheim the reader may meet with a concife and ju¬ 
dicious abltraCt of the controverfy to which this pub¬ 
lication gave rife. Among the variety of impreflions 
which it has undergone, the mod accurate is that pub- 
liflied by Father Martenne, in the ninth volume of his 
“ AmplifT. ColleCt. Vet. Scriptor.” In the year 846, Paf¬ 
chafius publifhed a treatife, entitled “ De Partu Virginis 
Lib. II.” intended to fupport an opinion propagated at 
that time by certain German doCtors, that Chrift was 
born in a manner quite different from thofe general and 
uniform laws of nature that regulate the birth of the 
human fpecies. He maintained, that the virgin Mary, 
having conceived without concupifcence, was free from 
the pains of child-birth, and was even delivered without 
any opening of the womb, Jefus having palled through 
her flefli as it is fuppofed that he did through the door 
into the room where his difciples were aflembled after his 
refurrection, though the door was fliut. When Ratramn 
oppofed this opinion, Pafchafius charged him with de¬ 
nying the virginity of Mary. During many years this 
curious performance appeared under the name of Ilde- 
phonfus archbifliop of Toledo, till father d’Achery, 
when he edited it in the twelfth volume of his Spicile- 
gium, after having collated different manufcripts, proved 
that it was the produdtion of Pafchafius. He was the 
author of many other pieces, all which were colledled 
and publifhed by father Sinnond in 1618, in folio; and 
they may likewife be found in the xivth volume of the 
Bibl. Patr. Cave's Hift. Lit. vol. ii. Priefiley's Hifi. 
Chriftian Church, vol. iii. Gen. liiog. 
PAS'CHIITS (George), a learned German Lutheran 
divine and profeffor, was the fon of a tradefman at Dant- 
P A S 
zic, where he was born in the year 1661. When he had 
completed his academic ftudies, he travelled for improve¬ 
ment in Germany, France, and England. In the year 
1701, he obtained the appointment of profeffor of mo¬ 
ral philofophy at Kiel in Holftein ; and in 1706, he was 
nominated profeffor extraordinary of divinity in the fame 
univerfity. He died in the following year, about the 
age of fifty-fix. He was the author of various publications, 
abounding in uncommon erudition, but faid to want 
method and arrangement; fome of which are highly 
commended for their ufeful tendency, and others as af¬ 
fording much entertainment from the curious difcuflions 
contained in them. His firft and principal work was 
publifhed in 1695, entitled “ TraCtatus de Novis Inventis, 
quorum accuratiori Cultui Facem prsetulit Antiquitas,” 
which afterwards appeared in a new and enlarged form in 
1700, under the title of “ Inventorum nov-antiquorum.’ 
It is a work replete with profound enquiries, and cal¬ 
culated to exalt former times at the expenfe of the prefent. 
The author attempts to prove, that the knowledge of 
the moderns has been imperceptibly borrowed from the 
rich ftores of ancient wifdom, and that our boafted in¬ 
ventions are only improvements on the difcoveries of 
the ancients. In endeavouring to eftablifh his point, he 
has brought forward a number of interefting faCts relating 
to the hiltory and progrefs of the arts and fciences. One 
of the other works of this author was entitled “De fiCtis 
Rebus publicis,” being a treatife on the imaginary re¬ 
publics of Plato, fir Thomas More, and Campanella, 
The titles of his other pieces may be found in the Gene¬ 
ral Biography, to which we refer. 
PASCOMA'YO, a feaport of Peru, in the bilhopric 
of Truxillo, and jurifdiCtion of Lana, at the mouth of a 
river of the fame name. Lat. 7. 20. S. 
PASCUA'RO. See Pasquaro. 
PA'SEWALK, a town of Anterior Pomerania, fituated 
on the Ucker, by means of which the inhabitants carry 
down their goods to the Great Haft'. Near the town are 
fome iron-works: twenty-one miles weft of Old Stettin, 
and fxty-lix fouth-fouth-eaft of Stralfund. Lat. 53. 30. 
N. Ion. 13. 57. E. 
To PASH, v.a. [from the Tent. perJJ'en, (which means 
to prefs,) in Dr. Johnfon’s opinion ; from the Su. Goth. 
bafa, to beat, in Serenius’s. It is more probably from 
the Greek verb, vruiu, ttcuctu, to ftrike. Or it may be 
another form of pujh. Todd.~\ To ftrike ; to crufh; to pufn 
againft ; to dafh with violence.—He was pafiied on the 
pate with a pot. Barret's Alv.— They their heads toge. 
ther pajht. Drayton. 
Thy cunning engines have with labour rais’d 
My heavy anger, like a mighty weight, 
To fall and pajh thee dead. Dry den. 
PASH , f A blow; a ftroke.—Learn pafii and knock, 
and beat and mall. How to choofe a good Wife, 160a.—A 
face, according to fir T. Hanmer, whofe authority Dr. 
Johnfon follows, with the etymology of pas, Spanifh, a 
kifs; but, in the paifage cited, the word means nothing 
more than pujh ; opajh, in fome places denoting a young 
bull-calf pulhing out his horns; and a mad pajh, a mad-- 
brained boy: 
Thou want’ll a rough pafii, and the (hoots that I have. 
To be full like me. Shakefpeare's Wint. Tale . 
PASH, orPA'sHA, f in mythology, is an attribute or 
implement of feveral of the deities of the Hindoos. It 
feems to be an implement of punilhment, a whip or lalh 
to chaltife, or cord to ftrangle, linners. A doubled cord 
is often feen in the hand of Parvati, in any of her terri¬ 
fic or avenging characters, and it is to fuch characters 
that the palha is chiefly confined. In Hindoo books the 
pallia is frequently mentioned, and it is generally diftin- 
guilhed by the name of the deity to whom it is attributed. 
Thus the Varuna-palha is the cord of Varuna, the Hindoo 
Neptune. “Varuna (fays Menu) molt affuredly binds 
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