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▪ I. † reˈpass, n. Obs.
[f. re- + pass n.2]
The (or an) act of passing back again.
c1557Abp. Parker Ps. lxxviii. 39 They were like wynde to gesse, that passth wythout repasse. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. iii. 97 Whether is it as conuenient for passe and repasse for cattle at one little gappe or two..? 1643Trapp Comm., Gen. iv. 7 The door is for continual pass and repass. 1683O. U. Parish Ch. no Conventicles 14 That Superstition, which the Papists have..been charged with, in such needless Motions, Passes and Repasses.
▪ II. repass, v.1|riːˈpɑːs, -æ-|
[ad. F. repasser (13th c.): see re- + pass v.]
1. intr. To pass again in the contrary direction; to return. Chiefly in pass and repass.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 178 Quhen he passis he suld nocht repas agayne till his hame. c1500Melusine 279 Yf there were but I & my peuple only, yet shuld none repasse of them homward. 1533More Apol. iii. Wks. 848/1 Because they would..haue their false folies passe and re⁓passe all vnperceiued. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 40 Messengers..whose office is to passe and repasse on foote. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvii. lxxii, But homewards they in armes againe repas. 1671A. Behn Forc'd Marr. i. i, I will pass and repass where and how I please. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 1094 Swift thro' the valves the visionary fair Repass'd. 1785J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navig. 25 A lawn terminated by water, with objects passing and repassing upon it. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam iii. xiv, The grate, as they departed to repass, With horrid clangour fell. 1885Law Rep. 15 Q.B. Div. 316 A catch..at the end..which prevented the pin, when passed through a slit, from repassing.
b. To pass again into a previous state, through a place, etc.
1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 767/1 This animal awakes daily,..and re-passes into a state of sleep. 1871Darwin Desc. Man i. iv. (1890) 113 A man cannot prevent past impressions often repassing through his mind.
2. trans. To cross (the sea, a river, etc.) again in the contrary direction.
c1500Melusine 168 Yf it playse god none of them shal not repasse the see. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 5 Wel haue we pass'd, and now re-pass'd the Seas. 1652Sir C. Cotterell tr. Calprenède's Cassandra ii. 139 Some of them had already repast the Araxis. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2494/3 They resolved to return, and had accordingly repassed the Lake. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 378 Homeward with pious speed repass the main. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. viii. I. 214 In repassing the mountains, great numbers of soldiers perished. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. v. i. 31 That dread gulf which none repass.
b. To pass again over, through, or by (a way, gate, place, etc.); to go past again.
a1618Raleigh (J.), We shall find small reason to think, that Abraham passed and repassed those ways more often than he was enforced so to do. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2491/3 Having..posted themselves in a hollow way which the Enemy were to repass. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxii, They found themselves within the cursed gate; Full hard to be repass'd. 1823W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. C. 540 That feeble interest with which we repass a familiar road. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 303/2 Having a piece cut off..to allow the guard-pin to pass and repass the roller. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin vi. i, I staggered away from him, and passed and repassed the spot many times.
c. To pass (one) again in a race.
1728Pope Dunc. ii. 107 Vig'rous he rises,..Re-passes Lintot, vindicates the race.
d. To pass over (a surface) again in painting.
1784J. Barry in Lect. Paint. vi. (1848) 215 In repassing those parts with the warm and more oleaginous colours.
3. To cause to pass again; to († lead over, or) put through again.
1565Golding Cæsar 164 When he had repassed his army, he cut of the bridge the length of cc. foote. 1613Sackville in Guardian No. 133 Drawing out my sword [I] re-passed it again through another place. 1692Burnet Past. Care vii. 81 One cannot read them too often, nor repass them too frequently in his thoughts. 1701Norris Ideal World i. viii. 449 Let him..quietly repass over in his thoughts what has been there discoursed. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 409 Then repass it through a fine linen bag. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 277 Let the distiller pass it and repass it through his limbecs.
b. To pass (a bill, resolution, etc.) again.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 560 No bill so returned shall become a law, unless it be repassed by two-thirds of both houses. 1812Chron. in Ann. Reg. 50 The resolutions agreed to at the last Common Hall, every one of which was unanimously re-passed. 1869Spectator 24 July 861/1 He himself..believed that Mr. Gladstone had repassed the preamble ‘in order to give the House of Lords a slap in the face’.
4. Conjuring. (See pass v. 6 and 25.)
1589[see pass v. 25]. c1590Marlowe Faust. xii, You think to carry it away with your hey-pass and re-pass. 1611Cotgr., Passe-passée, Heypasse, repasse; a iugling tricke, or tearme. 1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush iii. i, What a rogue's this juggler! This hey pass, repass! he has repass'd us sweetly. 1627[see pass v. 25].
Hence reˈpassing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also reˈpassable, reˈpasser.
1555Eden Decades 186 In theyr repassynge by the same clyme. 1598Florio, Ripassata, a repassing. 1680Cotton Comp. Gamester 28 They dream of nothing but Hazards..of passing and repassing [etc.]. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 323 The torrid Zone Glows with the passing and repassing Sun. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 163 As long as the Matter is repassable. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 223 The city swarmed with passing and repassing multitudes. 1769Middlesex Jrnl. 14–16 Sept. 4/4 A vast passing and re⁓passing between the parties mentioned. 1800Southey Lett. (1856) I. 112 This must exclude the great body of passers and repassers. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 376 The constant passing and repassing of traffic.
▪ III. † reˈpass, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
[app. ad. obs. F. repasser to cure.]
trans. To repair, recover from.
a1631Donne Resurrection, Sleepe, sleepe, old Sunn, thou canst not have repast As yet the wound thou took'st on Fryday last. |