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Passing

Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.

Passion

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

Passional

Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. A passionary.

Passionary

A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.

Passionately

In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.

Passionist

A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.

Passionless

Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.

Passive

Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

Passively

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

Passiveness

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

passivism

The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.

Passivity

Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.

Passman

One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.

Passover

A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.

Passport

Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.

Passus

A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

Password

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

Past

By; beyond; as, he ran past.

pasta

Any of a variety of edible unleavened doughey preparations made from flour, eggs and water, originating in Italy, and shaped into various forms, such as solid strings (as spaghetti), hollow tubes, or layered squares (ravioli). They may be mixed with various sauces, often having a tomato base, or filled with meat or cheese fillings.

Paste

To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

paste-up

A composition of a flat object on a board or other backing; as, they showed him a paste-up of the book jacket.

Pasteboard

A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.

pasted

Affixed with glue or paste.

Pastel

A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.

Paster

One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.

Pastern

The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

pasteurellosis

An acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection.

Pasteurism

A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

Pasteurization

A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140/ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained microorganisms.

Pasteurizer

One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid.

pasties

A pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers.

Pastille Pastil

A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.

pastime

To sport; to amuse one's self.

pastis

An anise-based liqueur similar to absinthe but yellowish in color and containing no wormwood.

pastor

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

Pastorage

The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.

Pastoral

A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

Pastorale

A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.

Pastorate

The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.

Pastorium

A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches.

pastrami

A highly seasoned cut of smoked beef.

Pastry

The place where pastry is made.

Pasturage

Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.

Pasture

To feed on growing grass; to graze.

pastureland

A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; pasture.

Pasturer

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

Pasty

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.

Pat

In a pat manner.

Pataca

The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.

Patache

A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.

Patagium

In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.

Patagonian

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. A native of Patagonia.

Patamar

A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.

Patas

A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

Patavinity

The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

Patch

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

patch up

To mend by patching; to patch; -- also used figuratively; as, to patch up frayed relations bewteen parties.

patchboard

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

patchcord

A conducting cord with a plug at each end, used to make connections between circuit terminals at a patchboard.

patched

Mended, usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; as, patched jeans.

Patchery

Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.

patching

The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it.

Patchouly Patchouli

A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.

Patchwork

Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or clumsily composed; a thing patched up.

Patchy

Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

Pate

The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.

Pated

Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

Patefaction

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.

Patela

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

Patellar

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneecap.

Patellula

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

Patena

A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.

Patency

The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.

Patent

To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

Patent-hammered

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Patentable

Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

Patentee

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

Patera

A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices.

Paterfamilias

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

Paternal

Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.

Paternalism

The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal.

paternalistic

Benevolent but sometimes intrusive; -- used often of governments and the administration of large organizations. See paternal government.

Paternity

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.

Paternoster

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

Patesi

A religious as well as a secular designation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

path

A trodden way; a footway.

Pathan

A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan, especially of the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan.

pathematic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering.

Pathetic

Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

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