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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. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] Hooker. They stay upon your patience. Shak.

A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

he suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton.

n for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. And bitter penance, with an iron whip. Spenser. Quoth he, "The man hath penan…

is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed." Drayton.

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing. The perennial existence of bodies corporate. Burke.

A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.

The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.

To grant permission; to allow.

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

See Permission.

-- Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.

ios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [Obs.] ller.

Full; complete. [Obs.] "Plein remission." Chaucer. -- Plein"ly, adv.