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away with a great noife, and the elements fhall melt with 
fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10. 
To PASS, v. a. To go beyond.—As it is advantageable 
to a phyfician to be called to the cure of a declining dif- 
eafe ; fo it is for a commander to fupprefs a fedition 
which has puffed the height: for in both the noxious 
humour doth firfl weaken, and afterwards wafte to no¬ 
thing. Hayward. —To go through : as, The horfe paffed 
the river.—Togo through : in a legal fenfe.—Neither of 
thefe bills have yet pajjed the houfe of commons, and 
fome think they may be rejected. Swift. —To fpend ; to 
live through.—We have examples of fuch as pafs molt of 
their nights without dreaming. Locke. 
The people, free from cares, ferene and gay, 
Pafs all their mild untroubled hours away. Addifon. 
To impart to any thing the power of moving.—Dr. 
Thurlfon thinks the principal ufe of infpiration to be, to 
move or pafs the blood front the right to the left ven¬ 
tricle of the heart. Derham's Phyf. Theol. —To carry haf- 
tily.—I had only time to pafs my eye over the medals, 
which are in great number. Addifon on Italy. —To trans¬ 
fer to another proprietor, or into the hands of another.— 
And puffed his bufinefs into other hands. Doddridge's 
Fam. Expof. 
He that will pafs his land, 
As I have mine, may fet his hand 
And heart unto this deed, when he hath read ; 
And make the purchafe fpread. Herbert. 
To drain ; to percolate.—They fpeak of fevering wine 
from water, paffing it through ivy-wood. Bacon's Nat. 
Hift. —To vept; to pronounce.—How many thoufands 
take upon them to pafs their cenfures on the perfonal ac¬ 
tions of others, and pronounce boldly on the affairs of 
the public. Watts. —To utter ceremonioufly.—Many of 
the lords and fome of the commons puffed fome compli¬ 
ments to the two lords. Clarendon. —To utter folemnly 5 
or judicially.—All this makes it more prudent, rational, 
and pious, to fearch our own ways, than to pafs fentence 
on other men. Hammond. —To tranfmit; to procure to 
go.—Waller puffed over five thoufand horfe and foot 
by Newbridge. Clarendon.— To put an end to.—We’ll 
pafs the bufinefs privately and well. Sliahefpeare. —To 
furpafs; to excel.—Whom doll thou pafs in beauty? 
Ezelt. xxxii. 19. 
Martial, thou gav’llfar nobler epigrams 
To thy Domitian, than I can my James: 
But in my royal fubjeft I pafs thee ; 
Thou flattered’ll thine, mine cannot flatter’d be. 
B. Jonfon. 
The anceflor and all his heirs, 
Though they in number pafs the liars of heav’n, 
Are ltill but one. Davies. 
To omit; to negleft ; whether to do or to mention.—I 
pafs their warlike pomp, their proud array. Dryden, 
If you fondly pafs our proffer’d offer, 
’Tis not the rounder of your old fac’d walls 
Can hide you. Shahefpeare's K. John. 
I pafs the wars that fpotted linxes make 
With their fierce rivals. Dryden v 
To tranfcend ; to tranfgrefs.—They did/;«/ithofe bounds, 
and did return fince that time. Burnet's Theory .—To ad¬ 
mit ; to allow.—The money of every one that paffeth the 
account, let the priefls take. 2 Kings, xii. 4. 
T\\ pafs them all upon account, 
As if your natural felf had don’t. Hudibras. 
To enafl a law.—How does that man know, but the de¬ 
cree may be already puffed againlt him, and his allowance 
of mercy fpent ? South .— Could the fame parliament, 
which addrefs’d with fo much Zealand earneftnefs againfl 
this evil, pafs it into a law? Swift .—To impofe fraudu¬ 
lently : 
The indulgent mother did her care employ, 
And pafs'd it on her hufband for a boy. Dryden. 
To praftife artfully; to make fucceed.—Five of my jells, 
then ftol’n, pafl him a play. B. Jonfon's Epigr. —Time 
lays open frauds, and after that difcovery there is no 
puffing the fame trick upon the mice. L'Eftrange. —To 
fend from one place to another: as, Pafs that beggar to 
his own parifli. 
To Pass away. To fpend; to wade.—The father 
waketh for the daughter, left fhe pafs away the flower of 
her age. Ecclus. xlii. 9. 
To Pass by. To excufe ; to forgive.—However God 
may pafs by Angle finners in this world ; yet, when a na¬ 
tion combines againfl him, the wicked fhall not go un- 
punifhed. Tillntfon: —To neglefl; to difregard.—Certain 
palfages of fcripture we cannot, without injury to truth, 
pafs by here in filence. Burnet's Theory. 
To Pass over. To omit; to let go unregarded.—It 
does not belong to this place to have that point debated, 
nor will it hinder our purfuit to pafs it over in filence. 
Watts. 
Better to pafs him o'er, than to relate 
The caufe I have your mighty fire to hate. Dryden. 
PASS, f. [from the verb.] A narrow entrance; an 
avenue.—The llraight pafs was damm’d with dead men. 
Shaliefpeare's Cymbeline. —Truth is a flrong hold, fortified 
by God and nature, and diligence is properly the under- 
flanding’s laying fiege to it; fo that it mufl be perpetu¬ 
ally obferving all the avenues and paffes to it, and accor¬ 
dingly making its approaches. South. —Paflage ; road.— 
The Tyrians had no pafs to the Red Sea, but through the 
territory of Solomon, and by his fuft'erance. Ralegh. 
Pity tempts the pafs; 
But the tough metal of my heart refifts. Dryden. 
A permiffion to go or come any where : a paffport.—A 
gentleman had a pafs to go beyond the feas. Clarendon. 
Give quiet pafs 
Through your dominions for this enterprize. Shahefp. 
An order by which vagrants or impotent perfons are fent 
to their place of abode.—Pufli; thrufl in fencing.—The 
king hath laid that, in a dozen paffes between you and 
him, he fhall not exceed you three hits. Sliahefpeare. 
With feeming innocence the crowd beguil’d ; 
But made the defperat’fl/>a//c , s when he fmil’d. Dryden. 
State ; condition.—I could fee plate, hangings, and paint¬ 
ings, about my houfe, till you had the ordering of me; 
but I am now brought to fuch pafs, that I can fee nothing 
at all. L'Eftrange. —Matters have been brought to this 
pafs, that, if one among a man’s fons had any blemifh, 
he laid him afide for the miniftry, and fuch an one was 
prefently approved. South. 
In my feare of hofpitable Jove, 
Thou did’fl to this paffe my affe&ions move. Chapman. 
Pass, in a military fenfe, a ftrait and difficult paflage 
which lhuts up the entrance into a country. A particu¬ 
lar paflage, or road, by which perfons, efpecially armed 
bodies of men, may go from one country into another.— 
Of this defeription are the paffes through the Pyrenees, 
which feparate Spain from France. They are five in 
number; viz. Firll pafs at Bayonne in France, which is 
always paflable, leading to Fontarabia, in the Bay of 
Bifcay r . Second pafs at Perpignan, a town of Rouflillon 
in France, which is alfo paflable at all times, leading 
through Bellegarde to Figueras in Catalonia. Third pafs, 
paflable from May to Odlober, leading to Pampeluna, the 
capital of Navarre in Spain. Fourth pafs,. paflable for 
muleteers only, leading through Verdun, a flrong town of 
Armagnac, in France, to Jacca, or Xacca, and Saragofla, 
in Arragon. Fifth pafs, very difficult and little ufed, lead¬ 
ing through Venafque into Catalonia. It may, however, 
be laid, that there are only two military paffes of material 
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