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The last fortnight of Lent.

t active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene. The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. Milton. The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas. Locke.

One unprovided with motive power.

Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

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. Edwards.

Passiveness; -- opposed to activity. Jer. Taylor.

Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.

One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2. [Eng. Univ.]

te 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.

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.

A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.

See Paspy. Shak.

A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

A passage different from the usual one; a byway.

A passing round; circuit; circuitous course. They fetched a compass of seven day's journey. 2 Kings iii. 9. This day I breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass. Shak.

Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke.

Rounded; arched. [Obs.] She came . . . into the compassed window. Shak.