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Toward; for; -- indicating the object of some passion; as, have pity or compassion on him.

scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.

A pouring out; an outburst. A passionate outgush of emotion. Thackeray.

er; as, God overrules the purposes of men; the chairman overruled the point of order. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon. These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled. F. W. Newman.

Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. Burke.

ing, riding, or the like. Chaucer. While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear. Waller.

Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit. The returning paroxysms of diffidence and despair. South.

An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay. Both sides had their partisans in the colony. Jefferson.

A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

e character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. Rambler.

Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.]

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.

That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of i…

ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that often involves the agent and the patient. Gov. of Tongue.

ntry; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country. Berkley.

Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.

Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.

fluencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. For thou hast all the arts of fine persuasion. Otway.

A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love. [Written also philtre.] Addison.