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f'prinkled it on their doors. It is certain, from the al¬ 
liance of our Saviour, that they did not that night con¬ 
fine themfelves to their houfes. 
This feaft was called, by the ancient Latins and Greeks, 
pafcha, not from rrcca-^u, “I fuffer,” as Chryfoltom, Ire- 
nasus, and Tertullian, imagine, but from the Hebrew 
HOB, pefach, “ paffage, leap the defign of the feaft 
being to commemorate the deftroying angel’s puffing-over 
the houfes of the Ifraelites, when he entered in, and de- 
ftroyed the firft-born in thofe of the Egyptians. Exod. xii, 
® 7 - 
The Greeks, fome of the Catholic dofiors, and feve- 
ral confiderable critics, from the thirteenth, eighteenth, 
and nineteenth, chapters of St. John, take occafton to 
conclude, that Jefus anticipated the day marked for the 
paffover in the law ; but the authority of three evangelifts 
teems to evince the contrary. (See Whitby’s Diflerta- 
tion on this fubjefl, in an appendix to the fourteenth 
chapter of St. Mark.) He, no doubt kept it on the very 
wight on which the other Jews obferved it; otherwife his 
adverfaries, who fo eagerly fought for matter of accufa- 
tion, would have fixed on this. 
The Jews ftill obferve a kind of paffover, mingling 
molt of the ancient rites with many modern inventions. 
Thus we are told that, after the deftru6lion of Jerufalem, 
the Jews found it requifite to make a law that the firft 
two days of the paffover fnould be kept with peculiar 
ftrictnefs, inftead of one ; and, alfo the feventh and 
eighth days, inftead of ending on the feventh; fo that, 
according to this regulation, the paffover is now kept 
eight days. All the other feftivals which, before that 
time, w f ere celebrated only one day, are now ordered to 
be obferved two days, Yom Kipur, or the Day of Atone¬ 
ment, excepted ; and this is ftill celebrated, as originally 
commanded, from eve to eve. 
Among the ancient Jews at Jerufalem, it was cufto- 
mary, when criminals had been condemned to death, to 
referve them for execution till the celebration of the 
molt folemn feafts, of which there were three in the 
year; viz. the Paffover, the Feaft of Weeks, and the 
Feaft of Tabernacles. Then, when the Jews came up 
to Jerufalem to facrifice, thefe malefactors were exe¬ 
cuted, in order “ that all Ifrael might fee, and fear.” 
Time's Telefcnpe, 1815. Brown's Didl. Bible. 
PASSOU'RA, f. in botany, a genus of Aublet’s, of 
which the flower is totally unknown. He deferibes the 
fruit as follows : “ Pericarpium : capfule oblong, trian¬ 
gular, of one cell, and three valves; feeds orbicular, 
three affixed to a longitudinal partition in the middle of 
each valve.” No account is given of the origin of the 
name. The tree, which is a native of the Timoutou 
woods in Guiana, and bore fruit in May, is deferibed by 
Aublet as having a trunk fixteen or eighteen feet high, 
branched to the fummit; leaves oppofite, ftalked, ovate, 
acute, fmooth, entire ; fruit forming a terminal fpike, 
yellowifh. Seeds fpherical, green. 
PASS'PORT, J\ [ prffeport , Fr.] Permiffion of paffage. 
■—Under that pretext, fain fhe would have given a fe» 
cret puffport to her-affe&ion. Sidney. 
Let him depart; his puffport fhall be made. 
And crowns for convoy put into his purfe, Shukefpeure . 
PASSUMACAN' BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of Luqon : fifteen miles fouth of Cape Engano. 
PASSUM'SICK, a river of North America, in Vermont, 
which runs into the Connecticut. 
PASS'US,/! A Roman meafure of length, being about 
four feet ten inches, or the thoufandth part of a Roman 
mile. The word properly fignifies, the fpace betwixt the 
feet of a man walking at an ordinary rate. See Measure, 
rol xiv. p. 600. 
PASSY, a fmall town of France, nearly adjoining to 
Paris on the weft. See the article Paris, p. 494. 
PASS'Y-MEASURE, f. [ puffamezzo, Jtal.] An old 
(lately kind of dance 5 a cinque-pace. See Passing* 
PAS 
ME asure.— After a paffy-me.nfure, or a pavin, I hate a 
drunken rogue. Shukejpeare's Tw. Night. 
PASSYUN'K, a town of America, in Philadelphia 
county, Pennfylvania, containing 884 inhabitants. 
PAS'T, part. udj. [from pffs.) Not prefent; not to 
come. — Fuji and to come feem beft; things prefent, 
word. Shuhefpcare. 
This not alone has (hone on ages pnjl, 
But lights the prefent, and fhall warm the laft. Pope. 
Spent; gone through; undergone.—A life of glorious 
labours pujl. Pope. 
PAS'T, Elliptically ufed for paft time : 
The pujl is all by death pofleft, 
And frugal fate that guards the reft. 
By giving bids us live to-day. Fenton. 
PAS'T, prep. Beyond in time.—Sarah was delivered of 
a child, when fhe was puji age. Heb. xi. 11.—No longer 
capable of.—Fervent prayers he made, when he was eft- 
teemed puft fenfe, and fo fpent his laft breath in commit¬ 
ting his foul unto the Almighty. Hayward. 
Fuji hope of conqueft, ’twas his lateft care 
Like falling Ciefar decently to die. Dryden. 
Beyond ; out of reach of.—That France and Spain were 
taught the ufe of flapping by the Greeks and Phoenicians 
is a thing pujl queftioning, Heylin .—Love, when once 
paj't government, is coniequently pujl fiiame. L’Ejirange . 
What’s gone, and what’s pujl help, 
Should be pujl grief. Shukefpeare's Wint, Tale. 
Her life fhe might have had ; but the defpair 
Of faving his had put it pujl her care, Dryden, 
Beyond; further than.—We will go by the king’s high¬ 
way, until we he pujl thy borders. Num. xxi. 22.—Above; 
more than.—The northern Irifh Scots have bows not pafi 
three quarters of a yard long, with a firing of wreathed 
hemp, and their arrows not much above an ell. Spenjer 
on Ireland. 
PASTA'CA, a river of Quito, South America, which 
rifes near Riobamba, and runs into the Maragnoti fifty 
miles weft of St. Joachim de Omaguas, 
PA'STE, f. [pate, Fr. from the Lat. pufeor , to feed.] 
A foft compofition of flour, wrought up with proper 
fluids, as water, milk, or the like, to ferve for cafes or 
coffins, therein to bake meats, fruits, &c. It is the 
foundation and roof of pies, tarts, patties, parties, and 
other works of paltry.-—Dr. Cullen obferves, that po/jg 
is very hard and indigeftible without butter; and, even 
with it, is apt to produce heartburn and acefcency. 
Perhaps this is increafed by the burned butter, from a 
certain fenfibility in the ftomach, which occafions all em- 
pyreumatic oils to be long retained, and lo produce acid* 
ity, Ency, Bril. 
Paste, in confeCtionary, &’c. a preparation of fome 
fruit, made by beating the pulp thereof, with fome fluid 
or other admixture, into a foft pappy confluence, fpread- 
ing it into a difh, and drying it with fugar, til! it becomes 
as pliable as an ordinary palte. 
Paste is likevvife ufed for a preparation of wheater* 
flour, boiled up and incorporated with water; ufed by 
various artificers, as upholfterers, faddiers, bookbinders, 
See. inftead of glue or fize, to fallen or cement their 
cloths, leathers, papers, &c. When pafte is ufed by 
bookbinders, or for paper-hangings to rooms, they mix 
a fourth, fifth, or fixth, of the weight of the flour of 
powdered refin ; and, where it is wanted ftill more te¬ 
nacious, gum arabic, or any kind of fize, may be added, 
Pafte may be preferved, by diflolving a little fiiblimate, 
in the proportion of a dram to a quart, in the water em¬ 
ployed for making it; which will prevent not only rats 
and mice, but any other kind of yerminand infeCts, frowi 
preying upon it. 
Paste, a fort of compofition made from calcined cry- 
ft?.!, lead, and metallic preparations, to imitate the feve* 
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