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passover|ˈpɑːsəʊvə(r), ˈpæs-|
[f. verbal phrase pass over: see pass v. 67 e.]
I. (With capital initial.)
1. a. The name of a Jewish feast, held on the evening of the fourteenth day of the (first) month Nisan, commemorative of the ‘passing over’ of the houses of the Israelites whose door-posts were marked with the blood of a lamb, when the Egyptians were smitten with the death of their firstborn. Extended to include the seven following days, the whole making the ‘days of unleavened bread’ (Exod. xii. 8).
1530Tindale Exod. xii. 11 And ye shall eate it in haste, for it is the Lordes passeouer. 1535Coverdale Exod. xii. 43 This is the maner of the kepynge of Passeouer. 1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 19. iv. §4 (1679) 495/1 Baptism is clearer than Circumcision, Lords Supper than Passover. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIV. 17/2 The modern Jews observe in general the same ceremonies that were practised by their ancestors, in the celebration of the passover. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 304 Passover..also called the feast of unleavened bread.
b. transf.
1726Ayliffe Parergon 236 Thus the Lord's Passover, which we commonly call Easter, was order'd by the Canon-Law to be celebrated every year on a Sunday, otherwise stiled the Lord's-Day.
2. a. Contextually, The lamb sacrificed at the Passover, the Paschal lamb. b. fig. Applied to Christ, of whom the Paschal lamb was regarded as typical (1 Cor. v. 7).
1530Tindale Exod. xii. 21 Chouse out and take to euery housholde a shepe, and kyll passeouer. 1539Bible (Great) 1 Cor. v. 7 For Christ oure passeouer is offered vp for vs. 1581R. Goade in Confer. iii. (1584) X j b, The Pascall lambe is called the passeouer. a1680Charnock Christ our Passover Wks. (1849) 266 The lamb was called the passover. The sign for the thing signified.
3. attrib., as Passover-bread, passover-cake, passover lamb, passover offering.
1545Brinklow Lament. 16 The passeouer lambe was a sygne, a token, and a remembraunce. 1611Bible 2 Chron. xxxv. 7 Iosiah gaue to the people, of the flocke, lambes and kiddes, all for the Passeouer-offerings. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Passover-bread, Passover-cake, a thin unleavened cake, used among the Jews at the festival of the Passover.
II. |ˈpɑːsˌəʊvə(r), ˈpæs-|. In general senses from the verbal phr. pass over (pass v. 67).
4. a. A passing or going over; a passing from this world to the next; a going over from one religion to another.
a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 530 On the Evening before his [Laud's] Passover, the night before the dismal Combate betwixt him and Death. 1889S. J. Eales St. Bernard I. 35 When he made his passover, that is when he was converted from Judaism to Christianity.
b. A path or pass over hills.
1839Z. Leonard Adventures (1904) 230 We..continued all day without any interruption, and in the evening encamped at the foot of the passover.
5. Sc. An act of passing over something, or something passed over, in speech or writing; an intentional omission.
1822Scott Nigel xiv, I wish to Heaven I was mair worthy of the name; but let that be a pass-over. 1830Galt Lawrie T. i. i. (1849) 4 A passage in my history that should not be a passover. 1833Fraser's Mag. Oct. 396, I could master the tenth chapter of Nehemiah, without making above a dozen pass-overs. |