word denoting value or estimation. "Let him pass for a man." Shak.
False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.
Felton.
This will not pass for a fault in him.
Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through
a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution
passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the
examination, but did not expect to pass.
9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. "The play may pass." Shak.
10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] "This passes, Master Ford." Shak.
12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.]
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. Arbuthnot.
14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate
passes by a certain clause in a deed. Mozley & W.
15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to
decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
She would not play, yet must not pass.
Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own
side.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come. — To pass away, to disappear; to
die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away." 2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet
alive I am." Tennyson. — To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed
by as we stood there. — To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. —
To pass on, to proceed. — To pass on or upon. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. "So
death passed upon all men." Rom. v. 12. "Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define
them." Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not pass
upon his life." Shak. — To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. —
To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
Pass
(Pass) v. t.
1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one
side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to
the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. "To pass commodiously
this life." Milton.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
Shak.
