Passionately
Pas″sion‐ate‐ly (?), adv. 1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.Sorrow expresses itself... loudly and passionately. South.2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Passionateness
Pas″sion‐ate‐ness, n. The state or quality of being passionate.
Passionist
Pas″sion‐ist, n.(R. C. Ch.) 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...
Passionless
Pas″sion‐less (?), a. Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. “Self-contained and passionless.” Tennyson.
Passiontide
Pas″sion‐tide′ (?), n. [Passion + tide time.] The last fortnight of Lent.
Passive
Pas″sive (?), a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See Passion.] 1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, no...
Passive balloon
{ Pas″sive bal‐loon″ora″ër‐o‐plane }. One unprovided with motive power.
Passive flight
Passive flight. Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
Passively
Pas″sive‐ly, adv. 1. In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.2. As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
Passiveness
Pas″sive‐ness, n. The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being subject to the power and action of its cause. J...
Passivity
Pas‐siv″i‐ty (?), n. [Cf. F. passivité.] 1. Passiveness; — opposed to activity. Jer. Taylor.2. (Physics) The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or r...
Passless
Pass″less, a. Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.
Passman
Pass″man (?), n.; pl.Passmen (�). One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
Passover
Pass″o′ver (?), n. [Pass + over. See Pasch.] (Jewish Antiq.) (a) A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstb...
Passport
Pass″port (�), n. [F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor.] 1. Permission to pas...
Passus
‖Pas″sus (?), n.; pl. L. Passus, E. Passuses (�). [L., a step, a pace. See Pace.] A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
Password
Pass″word′ (?), n. A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.
Passymeasure
Pas″sy‐meas′ure (?), n. [Corrupted fr. It. passamezzo.] See Paspy. Shak.
Past
Past (?), a. [From Pass, v.] Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. “Past ages...
Past (2)
Past, n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. “The past, at least, is secure.” D. Webster.The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very r...
Past (3)
Past, prep. 1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. “Who being past feeling.” Eph. iv. 19. “Galled past endurance.” Macaulay.Until we ...
Past (4)
Past (?), adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past.The alarum of drums swept past. Longfellow.
Paste
Paste (?), n. [OF. paste, F. pâte, L. pasta, fr. Gr. � barley broth; cf. � barley porridge, � sprinkled with salt, � to sprinkle. Cf. Pasty, n., Patty.] 1. A soft composition, a...
Paste (2)
Paste, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pasted; p. pr. & vb. n.Pasting.] To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
Pasteboard
Paste″board′ (?), n. 1. 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.2. (Cookery...
Pastel
Pas″tel (?), n. [F.; cf. It. pastello. Cf. Pastil.] 1. A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written pastil.] “Charming head...
Paster
Past″er (?), n. 1. One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.2. A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over ...