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Pass [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.

2. A passage; a road.

3. Permission to pass to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.

4. A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas.

5. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

6. An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.

7. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as , to make a pass at an antagonist.

8. State; condition or extreme case; extremity.

9. To what a pass are our minds brought.

10. Matters have been brought to this pass--

Pass [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; Latin patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.

2. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another. A man may pass on foot, on horseback or in a carriage; a bird and a meteor pass through the air; a ship passes on or through the water; light passes from the sun to the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.

3. To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.

4. To vanish; to disappear; to be lost. In this sense, we usually say, to pass away.

5. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass

6. To be spent; to go on or away progressively.

7. The time when the thing existed, is the idea of that space of duration which passed between some fixed period and the being of that thing.

8. To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]

9. To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.

10. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.

11. Neither of these bills has yet passed the house of commons.

12. To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received. Bank bills pass as a substitute for coin.

13. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.

14. To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.

15. This will not pass for a fault in him, till it is proved to be one in us.

16. To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.

17. To be done.

18. Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to defile them.

19. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.

20. Though well we may not pass upon his life.

21. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.

22. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it pass

23. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass not be converted into ailment.

24. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.

25. To be in a tolerable state.

26. A middling sort of man was left well enough by his father to pass but he could never think he had enough, so long as any had more.

27. To be transferred from one owner to another. The land article passed by livery and seizin.

28. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass.

29. To run or extend; as a line or other thing. The north limit of Massachusetts passes three miles north of the Merrimac.

30. To come to pass to happen; to arrive; to come; to be; to exist; a phrase much used in the Scriptures.

31. To pass away, to move from sight; to vanish.

32. To be spent; to be lost.

33. A good part of their lives passes away without thinking.

34. To pass by, to move near and beyond. He passed by as we stood in the road.

35. To pass on, to proceed.

36. To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over to the other side.

37. To pass into, to unite and blend, as two substances or colors, in such a manner that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

Pass [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.

2. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.

3. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.

4. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.

5. To cause to move hastily.

6. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number.

7. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.

8. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.

9. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.

10. To procure or cause to go.

11. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

12. To put an end to.

13. This night

14. We'll pass the business privately and well.

15. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.

16. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

17. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.

18. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.

19. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,

20. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.

21. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.

22. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.

23. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.

24. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.

25. To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto.

26. To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of like in idleness.

27. To pass by, to pass near and beyond.

28. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.

29. To neglect; to disregard.

30. Certain passages of Scripture we cannot pass by without injury to truth.

31. To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain.

32. To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.

Pass [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.

2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.

3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.

4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.

5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.

6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.

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.

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.

12. To take heed; to care.

13. To go through the intestines.

14. To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.

15. To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.

16. 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.

17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.

18. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.

19. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.

20. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.

21. A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.

22. State of things; condition; predicament.

23. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.

24. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.

25. Estimation; character.

26. A part; a division.

Pass [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.

3. To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.

4. To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.

5. To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.

6. To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.

7. To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.

8. To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.

9. To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.

10. To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

11. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

12. To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.

13. To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.

Pass-key [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

Pass-parole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In military affairs, a command given at the head of an army and communicated by word of mouth to the rear.

Pass-parole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

Passable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That may be passed, traveled or navigated. The roads are not passable The stream is passable in boats.

2. That may be penetrated; as a substance passable by a fluid.

3. Current; receivable; that may be or is transferred from hand to hand; as bills passable in lieu of coin. False coin is not passable

4. Popular; well received.

5. Supportable. [This should be passible.]

Passable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.

2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.

3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.

Passableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being passable.

Passably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tolerably. [ See Passible .]

Passably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tolerably; moderately.

Passacaglia [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Passacaglio

Passacaglio [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

Passade [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Passado

Passado [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A pass or thrust.

2. A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

Passage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of passing or moving by land or water, or through the air or other substance; as the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a fowl; the passage of light or a meteor; the passage of fluids through the pores of the body, or from the glands. Clouds intercept the passage of solar rays.

2. The time of passing from one place to another. What passage had you? We had a passage of twenty five days to Havre de Grace, and of thirty eight days from England.

3. Road; way; avenue; a place where men or things may pass or be conveyed.

4. And with his pointed dart,

5. Explores the nearest passage to this heart.

6. Entrance or exit.

7. What! are my doors opposed against my passage?

8. Right of passing; as, to engage a passage on board a ship bound to India.

9. Occurrence; event; incident; that which happens; as a remarkable passage in the life of Newton. [See the Spanish verb, supra. This sense is obsolescent.]

10. A passing away; decay. [Little used.]

11. Intellectual admittance; mental reception.

12. Among whom I expect this treatise will have a fairer passage than among those deeply imbued with other principles.

13. Manner of being conducted; management.

14. On consideration of the conduct and passage of affairs in former times--

15. Part of a book or writing; a single clause, place or part of indefinite extent.

16. How commentators each dark passage shun.

17. Enactment; the act of carrying through all the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.

18. Bird of passage a fowl that passes at certain seasons from one climate to another, as in autumn to the south to avoid the winter's cold, and in spring to the north for breeding. Hence the phrase is sometimes applied to a man who has no fixed residence.

Passage [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.

2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.

4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.

6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.

7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.

8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.

9. Reception; currency.

10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.

11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.

Passager [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A traveler or voyager; one who passes or journeys on foot, in a vehicle, or in a ship or boat. This word is usually written corruptly passenger, and the first vowel is often short.

Passager [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.

Passageway [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

Passant [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.

2. Curs/ry, careless.

3. Surpassing; excelling.

4. Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

Passau Encyclopedia Britannica

PASSAU, an ancient town and episcopal see of Bavaria, lies in the district of Lower Bavaria, and occupies a highly picturesque situation at the confluence of the Danube, the Inn, and the Hz, 90 miles to the north-east of Munich, and close to the Austrian frontier. It consists of the town proper, on the rocky tongue of land between the Danube and the Inn, and of the three suburbs of Innstadt, on the right bank of the Inn, Ilzstadt, on the left bank of the Hz, and Anger, in the angle between the Ilz and the Danube. Passau is one of the most beautiful places on the Danube, a fine effect being produced by the way in which the houses are piled one above another on the heights rising from the river. The best general view is obtained from the Oberhaus, an old fortress now used as a prison, which crowns a hill 300 feet high on the left bank of the Danube. A detailed inspection of the buildings of the town, most of which date from the 17th and 18th centuries, scarcely fulfils the expectation aroused by their imposing appearance as a whole. The most noteworthy are the cathedral, a florid rococo structure on the site of an earlier church, which claims to have been founded in the 5th century; the post-office, in which the treaty of Passau was signed; the episcopal palace; the old Jesuit college, with a library of 30,000 volumes; the arsenal; the Romanesque church of the Holy Cross; and the double church of St Salvator. The old forts and bastions have been demolished, but the Niederhaus, at the base of the Oberhaus, is still extant, though no longer maintained as a fortress. The chief products of the insignificant industry of the town are tobacco, leather, and paper. It also possesses iron and copper foundries and a few barge-building yards. The well-known Passau crucibles are made ...

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Passe [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Passee

Passe partout [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.

2. A master key; a latchkey.

3. A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.

Passed [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. P'ASSED

2. P'ASSENGER, noun One who is traveling, as in a public coach, or in a ship, or on foot. This is the usual, though corrupt orthography.

3. Passenger falcon, a kind of migratory hawk.

Passed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pass

Passee [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle.

Passegarde [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

State Roget’s Thesaurus §7

N. state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, # mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character

V. be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state, be on a footing, do, fare, come to pass

Adj. conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic

Adv. conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case, relative

Circumstance Roget’s Thesaurus §8

N. circumstance, situation, phase, position, # posture, attitude, place, point, terms, regime, footing, standing, status, occasion, juncture, conjunctive, contingency, predicament, emergence, emergency, exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push, occurrence, turning point, bearings, how the land lies, surroundings, context, environment 229a, location 184, contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475, causation 153, attribution 155

Adj. circumstantial, given, conditional, provisional, critical, modal, contingent, incidental, adventitious, limitative

Adv. in the circumstances, under the circumstances, the circumstances, conditions, thus, in such wise, accordingly, that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances, that being so, sith, since, seeing that, as matters stand, as things go, as times go, conditionally, provided, if, in case, if so, if so be, if it be so, depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, if it so happen, if it so turn out, in the event of, in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event, provisionally, unless, without, according to circumstances, according to the occasion, as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be, as the case may be, as the wind blows, pro re nata

Phr. "yet are my sins not those of circumstance", 1, absolute relation

Superiority Roget’s Thesaurus §33

N. superiority, majority, greatness, advantage, pull, preponderance, preponderation, vantage ground, prevalence, partiality, personal superiority, nobility, triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain, crackajack *, supremacy, preeminence, lead, maximum, record, τρικυμία, climax, culmination, transcendence, ne plus ultra, lion's share, benjamin's mess, excess, surplus, (redundancy) 641

V. be superior, exceed, excel, transcend, outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-herod, pass, surpass, get ahead of, over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch, top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out, beat hollow, outstrip, eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint, have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage, turn the scale, kick the beam, play first fiddle, preponderate, predominate, prevail, precede, take precedence, come first, come to a head, culminate, beat &c. all others, bear the palm, break the record, take the cake *, become larger, render larger, (expand) 194

Adj. superior, greater, major, higher, exceeding, great, distinguished, ultra, vaulting, more than a match for, supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning, first-rate, (excellent) 648, unrivaled peerless, matchless, none such, second to none, sans pareil, unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed, superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra, beyond compare, beyond comparison, culminating, transcendent, transcendental, plus royaliste que le roi, more catholic than the pope increased, enlarged

Adv. beyond, more, over, over the mark, above the mark, above par, upwards of, in advance of, over and above, at the top of the scale, at its height, eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, κατ’ ἐξοχήν, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more

Phr. "i shall not look upon his like again", deos fortioribus addesse

Course Roget’s Thesaurus §109

N. corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time, duration, aorist

V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass, roll on, wear on, press on, flit, fly, slip, slide, glide, run its course, run out, expire, go by, pass by, be -past

Adj. elapsing, aoristic, progressive

Adv. in due time, in due season, in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time, in time

Phr. labitur et labetur, truditur dies die, fugaces labuntur anni, "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day"

The Past Roget’s Thesaurus §122

N. the past, past time, days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by, bygone days, old times, ancient times, former times, fore time, the good old days, the olden time, good old time, auld lang syne, eld|, antiquity, antiqueness, status quo, time immemorial, distance of time, remote age, remote time, remote past, rust of antiquity paleontology, paleography, paleology, paleozoology, palætiology|, archaeology, paleogeography, paleoecology, paleobotany, paleoclimatoogy, archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, pre-raphaelitism, paleography, retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory, laudator temporis acti, medievalist, pre-raphaelite, antiquary, antiquarian, archmologist &c, oldbuck, dryasdust, ancestry

V. be past, have expired, have run its course, have had its day, pass, pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off, lapse, blow over, look back, trace back, cast the eyes back, exhume

Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone, elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable, obsolete, former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late, ancestral, foregoing, last, latter, recent, over night, preterperfect, preterpluperfect, looking back, retrospective, retroactive, archaeological

Adv. paleo-, archaeo-, formerly, of old, of yore, erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over, in the olden time, anciently, long ago, long since, a long while, a long time ago, years ago, yesteryear, ages ago, some time ago, some time since, some time back, yesterday, the day before yesterday, last year, ultimo, lately, retrospectively, ere now, before now, till now, hitherto, heretofore, no longer, once, once upon a time, from time immemorial, from prehistoric times, in the memory of man, time out of mind, already, yet, up to this time, ex post facto

Phr. time was, the time has been, the time hath been, you can't go home again, fuimus troes, fruit ilium, hoc erat in more majorum, "o call back yesterday, bid time return", tempi passati, "the eternal landscape of the past", ultimus romanorum, "what's past is prologue", "whose yesterdays look backward with a smile", 2. time with reference to a particular period

Eventuality Roget’s Thesaurus §151

N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact, matter of fact, naked fact, bare facts, just the facts, phenomenon, advent, business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding, circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence, opportunity (occasion) 143, the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general, things in general, affairs in general, the times, state of affairs, order of the day, course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events, ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life, chapter of accidents, situation

V. happen, occur, take place, take effect, come, become of, come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on, pass, present itself, fall, fall out, turn out, run, be on foot, fall in, befall, betide, bechance, prove, eventuate, draw on, turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up, supervene, survene, issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course, pass off, meet with, experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to, fall to the lot of, be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot, find, endure

Adj. happening, going on, doing, current, in the wind, in the air, afloat, on foot, afoot, on the tapis, at issue, in question, incidental, eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident, memorable, momentous, signal

Adv. eventually, in the event of, in case, just in case, in the course of things, as things, times go, as the world goes, wags, as the tree falls, cat jumps, as it may turn out, happen

Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles, you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring, the plot thickens, "breasts the blows of circumstance", "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years", future events

Interval Roget’s Thesaurus §198

N. interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void 7c, (absence) 187, incompleteness, period, interim (time) 106

V. gape

Adj. with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose

Adv. at intervals, longo intervallo

Narrowness. Thinness Roget’s Thesaurus §203

N. narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity 7c, (little) 193, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor|, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction

V. be narrow, narrow, taper, contract, render narrow, waste away

Adj. narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c. (expand ), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid|, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular

Motion Roget’s Thesaurus §264

N. motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization

V. be in motion, move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit, hover about, hover round, hover about, shift, slide, glide, roll, roll on, flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along, wander, walk, change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters, dodge, keep going, keep moving, put in motion, set in motion, move, impel, propel, render movable, mobilize

Adj. moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic

Adv. under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march

Phr. eppur si muove, es bildet ein talent sich in der stille, sich ein charakter in dem strom der welt

Passage Roget’s Thesaurus §302

N. passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage

V. pass, pass through, perforate, penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade, go through, go across, go over, pass over, cut across, ford, cross, pass and repass, work, make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way, make a passage form a passage, cut one's way through, find its way, find its vent, transmit, make way, clear the course, traverse, go over the ground

Adj. passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic

Adv. en passant

Transcursion Roget’s Thesaurus §303

N. transcursion|, transiliency, transgression, trespass, encroachment, infringement, extravagation|, transcendence, redundancy

V. transgress, surpass, pass, go beyond, go by, show in front, come to the front, shoot ahead of, steal a march upon, steal a gain upon, overstep, overpass, overreach, overgo, override, overleap, overjump, overskip, overlap, overshoot the mark, outstrip, outleap, outjump, outgo, outstep, outrun, outride, outrival, outdo, beat, beat hollow, distance, leave in the lurch, leave in the rear, throw into the shade, exceed, transcend, surmount, soar, encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on, strain, stretch a point, strain a point, cross the rubicon

Adj. surpassing

Adv. beyond the mark, ahead

Disappearance Roget’s Thesaurus §449

N. disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, # occultation, departure, exit, vanishing point, dissolving views

V. disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt, evaporate, vaporize, be gone, leave no trace, leave "not a rack behind", go off the stage, suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse, retire from sight, be lost to view, pass out of sight, lose sight of, efface

Adj. disappearing, evanescent, missing, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, gone

Int. vanish, disappear, avaunt, get lost, get out of here, words relating to the intellectual faculties

Teaching Roget’s Thesaurus §537

N. teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three r's, initiation, a, b, c, &c (beginning) 66, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, a, b, c, d, e, f, gentleman's c, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project

V. teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot", improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted

Adj. teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical

Phr. the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, "sermons in stones and good in everything"

Indication Roget’s Thesaurus §550

N. indication, symbolism, symbolization, semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics, zeitgeist, characteristic, diagnostic, lineament, feature, trait, fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint, cloven hoof, footfall, recognition (memory) 505, diagnostic, divining rod, detector, sign, symbol, index, indice|, indicator, point, pointer, exponent, note, token, symptom, dollar sign, dollar mark, type, figure, emblem, cipher, device, representation, epigraph, motto, posy, gesture, gesticulation, pantomime, wink, glance, leer, nod, shrug, beck, touch, nudge, dactylology, dactylonomy, freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show, cue, hint, clue, clew, key, scent, signal, signal post, rocket, blue light, watch fire, watch tower, telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff, cresset, fiery cross, calumet, heliograph, guidon, headlight, mark, scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point, notch, nick, print, imprint, impress, impression, keyboard symbols, printing symbols, red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font, jotting, note, annotation, reference, blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure, quotation marks, double quotes, "", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes, left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")", opening bracket, " ", left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}", left arrow, "<", right arrow, ">", forward slash, "/", backward slash, "\", exclamation point, "!", commercial at, "@", pound sign, "#", percent sign, "%", carat, "^", ampersand, "&", asterisk, "*", hyphen, "-", dash, "-", "", em dash, "—", plus sign, "+", equals sign, "=", question mark, "?", period, ".", semicolon, ";", colon, ":", comma, ",", apostrophe, "'", single quote, "'", tilde, "~", badge, criterion, countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil, duplicate, tally, label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop, dib, totem, tessera, card, bill, witness, voucher, stamp, cacher, trade mark, hall mark, signature, mark, autograph, autography, attestation, hand, hand writing, sign manual, cipher, seal, sigil, signet, hand and seal, paraph, brand, superscription, indorsement, endorsement, password, watchword, catchword, security card, pass, passkey, credentials, open sesame, timbrology, mot de passe, mot du guet, pass-parole, shibboleth, title, heading, docket, address card, visiting card, carte de visite, insignia, banner, banneret, bannerol, bandrol, flag, colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum, oriflamb, oriflamme, figurehead, ensign, pennon, pennant, pendant, burgee, blue peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack, banderole, "old glory", quarantine flag, vexillum, yellow-flag, yellow jack, tricolor, stars and stripes, bunting, heraldry, crest, coat of arms, arms, armorial bearings, hatchment, escutcheon, scutcheon, shield, supporters, livery, uniform, cockade, epaulet, chevron, garland, love knot, favor, beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, cock, weathercock, guidepost, handpost, fingerpost, directing post, signpost, pillars of hercules, pharos, bale-fire, beacon- fire, l'etoile du nord, landmark, seamark, lighthouse, balize, polestar, loadstar, lodestar, cynosure, guide, address, direction, name, sign, signboard, warning, omen, prefigurement, trace, record, warning, alarm, scepter, trophy, gauge, milestone, milepost, brand, fool's cap, check, telltale, test, mileage ticket, milliary, notification, advertisement, word of command, call, bugle call, trumpet call, bell, alarum, cry, battle cry, rallying cry, angelus, reveille, sacring bell, sanctus bell, exposition, proof, pattern

V. indicate, be the sign, of, denote, betoken, argue, testify, bear the impress, of, connote, connotate, represent, stand for, typify, symbolize, put an indication, put a mark, note, mark, stamp, earmark, blaze, label, ticket, docket, dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk, print, imprint, impress, engrave, stereotype, make a sign, signalize, underscore, give a signal, hang out a signal, beckon, nod, wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink, gesticulate, raise the finger, hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up the hand, saw the air, "suit the action to the word", wave a banner, unfurl a banner, hoist a banner, hang out a banner, wave the hand, wave a kerchief, give the cue, show one's colors, give an alarm, sound an alarm, beat the drum, sound the trumpets, raise a cry, sign, seal, attest, underline, call attention to, give notice

Adj. indicating, indicative, indicatory, denotative, connotative, diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial, individual, known by, recognizable by, indicated, pointed, marked, denotable, indelible

Adv. in token of, symbolically, in dumb show

Phr. ecce signum, ex ungue leonem, ex pede herculem, vide ut supra, vultus ariete fortior

Method Roget’s Thesaurus §627

N. method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, mo, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, king's highway, queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut, carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to

Phr. hae tibi erunt artes

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Genesis 4:3

And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

Genesis 4:8

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

Genesis 6:1

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 7:10

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 8:1

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

Genesis 8:6

And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

Genesis 8:13

And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.

Genesis 9:14

And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

Genesis 11:2

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 12:6

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 12:11

And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,

Genesis 12:12

Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

Genesis 12:14

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 14:1

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

Genesis 15:17

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

Genesis 18:3

And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.

Genesis 18:5

And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”

Genesis 18:11

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Genesis 19:17

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”