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  • English Word Passioned Definition of Passion
  • English Word Passioning Definition of Passion
  • English Word Passionist Definition 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.
  • English Word Passionless Definition Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.
  • English Word Passiontide Definition The last fortnight of Lent.
  • English Word Passive Definition Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
  • English Word Passive Definition Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
  • English Word Passive Definition Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
  • English Word Passive Definition Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
  • English Word Passively Definition In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
  • English Word Passively Definition As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
  • English Word Passiveness Definition The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
  • English Word Passivity Definition Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
  • English Word Passivity Definition The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.
  • English Word Passivity Definition The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
  • English Word Passless Definition Having no pass; impassable.
  • English Word Passman Definition One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
  • English Word Passmen Definition of Passman
  • English Word Passover Definition 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.
  • English Word Passover Definition The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.
  • English Word Passport Definition 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.
  • English Word Passport Definition A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
  • English Word Passport Definition A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.
  • English Word Passport Definition Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.
  • English Word Passus Definition of Passus
  • English Word Passus Definition A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
  • English Word Passuses Definition of Passus
  • English Word Password Definition A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
  • English Word Passymeasure Definition See Paspy.
  • English Word Past Definition Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.