PASSIONATENESS
PAS'SIONATENESS, noun State of being subject to passion or anger.1. Vehemence of mind.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PASSIONED
PAS'SIONED, adjective Disordered; violently affected.1. Expressing passion.
PASSIONLESS
PAS'SIONLESS, adjective Not easily excited to anger; of a calm temper.1. Void of passion.
PASSIVE
P'ASSIVE, adjective [Latin passivus, from passus, patior, to suffer.]1. Suffering; not acting, receiving or capable of receiving impressions from external agents. We were passiv...
PASSIVELY
P'ASSIVELY, adverb With a passive nature or temper; with a temper disposed to submit to the acts of external agents, without resistance.1. Without agency.2. According to the for...
PASSIVENESS
P'ASSIVENESS, noun Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as the passiveness of matter.1. Passibility; capacity of suffering.We shall lose our passiven...
PASSIVITY
PASSIV'ITY, noun Passiveness, which see. [Little used.]1. The tendency of a body to persevere in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body.
PASSLESS
P'ASSLESS, adjective Having no passage.
PASSOVER
P'ASSOVER, noun [pass and over.] A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God smiting the first-born of the Egyptian...
PASSPORT
P'ASSPORT, noun1. A written license from a king or other proper authority, granting permission or safe conduct for one to pass through his territories, or to pass from one count...
PASSY-MEASURE
PAS'SY-MEASURE, noun An old stately kind of dance; a cinque-pace.P'AST, participle passive of pass. Gone by or beyond; not present; not future.1. Spent; ended; accomplished.P'AS...
PAST
P'AST, participle passive Gone by; done; accomplished; ended.1. Enacted; having received all the formalities necessary to constitute a law.
PASTE
PASTE, noun [Latin pistus, or Gr. to sprinkle, or some root which signifies to mix and knead.]1. A soft composition of substances, as flour moistened with water or milk and knea...
PASTEBOARD
PASTEBOARD, noun A species of thick paper formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or by macerating paper and casting it in molds, etc. It is used for the coveri...
PASTEL
PAS'TEL, noun A plant, the woad, of the genus Isatis.1. A coloring substance.
PASTERN
PAS'TERN, noun The part of a horse's leg between the joint next the foot and the coronet of the hoof.1. The human leg; in contempt.
PASTERN-JOINT
PAS'TERN-JOINT, noun The joint in a horse's leg next the foot.
PASTICCIO
PASTIC'CIO, noun A medley; an olio.
PASTIL
PAS'TIL, noun [Latin pastillus.]1. A roll of paste, or a kind of paste made of different colors ground with gum-water in order to make crayons.2. In pharmacy, a dry composition ...
PASTIME
P'ASTIME, noun [pass and time.] Sport; amusement; diversion; that which amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably.P'ASTIME, verb intransitive To sport; to use diversion. [Li...
PASTOR
P'ASTOR, noun [Latin from pasco, pastum, to feed.]1. A shepherd; one that has the care of flocks and herds.2. A minister of the gospel who has the charge of a church and congreg...
PASTORAL
P'ASTORAL, adjective [Latin pastoralis.] Pertaining to shepherds; as a pastoral life; pastoral manners.1. Descriptive of the life of shepherds; as a pastoral poem.2. Relating to...
PASTORATE
P'ASTORATE, noun The office, state or jurisdiction of a spiritual pastor.
PASTORLIKE
P'ASTORLIKEP'ASTORLY, adjective Becoming a pastor.
PASTORLY
P`ASTORLY, a. Becoming a pastor.
PASTORSHIP
P'ASTORSHIP, noun The office or rank of pastor.
PASTRY
PASTRY, noun [from paste.] Things in general which are made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient, as pies, tarts, cake and the like.1. The place where ...