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passing out
passing out n.
a. The action of issuing from, going out of, or departing from something; an instance of this; spec. the action of leaving or going out of this world or life, used euphemistically of a person's death.In quot. c1484 referring to the coming out of a child from the womb.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Wisd. xix. 16 Eche oon soȝte þe passyng out [a1425 L.V. passyng] of his dore.
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 242 (MED) He thurstede bodely by cause of the grete passynge out of blood.
1459 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 192 (MED) I have ordeigned my houshold shalbe kept to gedir aftre my passing oute of this lief.
c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 182 (MED) He infudyth þe bestly soule sensibyl, tylle þe pasyng owte or þe departyng, and it [sc. a child] getyth a-nodyr gouirnauns to þe fyllyng of tyme of iiij yeris.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 171 (MED) The day of my passynge out of this world commeþ nye.
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iii. i Neither Wife, Friend, Seruant, no third soule..Know of my comming in, or passing out.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician x. 368 They stop the passing out of the influxed humours.
1820 J. H. Wiffen Julia Alpinula xxx. 63 The eager shout..which hailed his passing out.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxii. 314 Before the door had swung upon its hinges after Sir Mulberry's passing out, they stood side by side in the street together.
1850 P. H. Myers King of Hurons xxxv. 308 Major Bain..ordered the strictest vigilance to prevent his passing out.
1969 B. Colgarve & R. A. B. Mynors tr. Cuthbert Let. on Death Bede in Bede's Eccles. Hist. Eng. People (1998) 581 I take delight..in sending you a brief account of his passing out of this world.
2002 Sunday Gaz.-Mail (Charleston, W. Va.) 3 Mar. 4 c/1 To better understand our passing out of this world and our entrance into the next, the scriptures plainly say we can study God's creation to find clues.
b. Graduation from a school or college, esp. a military academy. Frequently attributive, as passing-out examination, passing-out inspection, passing-out parade, etc.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > parade > type of
church parade1788
dress parade1808
passing-out parade1955
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 28 July 4/7 He came out first in the recent passing-out examinations.
1930 Times Educ. Suppl. 2 Aug. 340/3 The passing-out inspection of aircraft apprentices..was held on Tuesday.
1955 Times 11 Aug. 6/5 The Sudan defence force to-day held the first passing-out parade of officer cadets since the Sudanization of the force.
2002 Times 4 Apr. 20/4 The passing out of the First Battalion, Afghan National Guard, marks the rebirth of the national army.
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