Passovern.

Brit.

/ˈpɑːsˌəʊvə/,

/ˈpasˌəʊvə/, U.S.

/ˈpæsˌoʊvər/

Forms: see pass v. and over adv. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to pass over at pass v. Phrasal verbs 1.

Etymology: < to pass over at pass v. Phrasal verbs 1. In sense 1 after Hebrew pesaḥ Pesach n. < pāsaḥ to pass or spring over (see pasch n.). Compare earlier passing over n. at passing n. Phrases 2a.The festival is named after the Lord's ‘passing over’ the houses of the People of Israel, whose doorposts were marked with the blood of a lamb, while the Egyptians were punished with the death of their firstborn (Exodus 11–12).

I. Senses relating to the Jewish festival.

a. The major Jewish spring festival which commemorates the liberation of the People of Israel from Egyptian bondage, lasting seven days (in Israel) or eight days (in the Diaspora) from the 15th day of Nisan. Cf. Pesach n.

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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Passover > [noun]

EasterOE

phaseOE

paschOE

forthforea1325

fasea1425

Passover1530

passing-by1533

paschala1535

azyme1582

feast1611

Pesach1613

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xii. f. xviii^v And ye shall eate it in haste, for it is the Lordes passeouer.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xii. 43 This is the maner of the kepynge of Passeouer.

1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse 62 If the eating [of the Pascal lamb] had bene omitted..the whole action of the Pasouer wes but a sacrifice.

1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 49 The circumstance of the Evening, and of the infermentation belonged peculiarly to the feast of the Passover, and of the unleavened bread.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 687 Baptism is clearer than Circumcision, Lords Supper than Passeover.

1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 67 This Custom of bidding the Passover on the Day of the Epiphany.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 17/2 The modern Jews observe in general the same ceremonies that were practised by their ancestors, in the celebration of the passover.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 304 Passover..also called the feast of unleavened bread.

1893 J. A. Broadus Harm. Gospels 243 The Bi-paschal theory makes the time of the public life of Jesus one year, allowing only two Passovers to the Gospel of John.

1947 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 12 195/2 He was introduced to matzoth when a Jewish woman brought some to his family on Passover.

1963 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 4 337 The only restriction of which the Jews complained was the prohibition of exhibiting the Tora in public at Passover.

2002 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 150/2 The Palestinian leader called to congratulate him on the birth of twin grandsons and to wish him a happy Passover.

b. In extended use, applied to other festivals, holidays, or celebrations.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > passover

passing-by1523

by-passing1526

pass-by1550

Passover1726

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 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.

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 77 By the first name [sc. green ear of corn], the Indians, as an explicative, term their passover.

1825 Lancet 23 July 76/1 It is a time sacred to idleness... It is the grand ‘Passover’ of authors, when they exchange their books for brooks.

1995 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) (Nexis) 27 Mar. e1 Bob Hope used to refer to Oscar time as ‘passover’ at his house.

1999 Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 2 b Jubilee Day for Black Americans is a type of passover. It too portends of the miraculous.

a. (a) The lamb eaten at the Passover festival; the Passover meal; (hence, among Christians) the Last Supper; †(b) The lamb sacrificed at the Passover, the paschal lamb (obsolete).

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society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > lamb

Easter offeringa1387

pasch-lamba1400

paschal lamba1500

Passover1530

Passover lamb1538

paschal1656

1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xii. f. xix Chouse out and take to euery housholde a shepe, and kyll passeouer.

1581 R. Goade in Confer. (1584) iii. X j b The Pascall lambe is called the passeouer.

1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxii. 8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Goe and prepare vs the Passeouer, that we may eate.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 134 To keepe themselves from all legall pollution, that they might bee capable of eating the Passover.

a1680 S. Charnock Wks. (1684) II. 847 The lamb was called the passover. The sign for the thing signified.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 199 After he had eaten the Passover, and instituted the solemn Rite, which was to supercede it.

1869 D. Greenwell Carmina Crucis ii. 75 This Passover with bitter herbs how long Have I desired to eat.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Ave in Wks. (1911) 39 Through His boyhood, year by year Eating with Him the Passover.

1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 595/2 His crucifixion takes place on the selfsame day on which the Passover was eaten.

1999 Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) (Nexis) 11 May 19 Luke 22 records that Jesus did indeed eat the Passover.

2003 Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader (Nexis) 17 Apr. 1 b Jesus ate Passover, a lamb that was slain, every year.

b. Christian Church. Christ, of whom the paschal lamb is regarded as the type or symbol.Frequently with allusion to 1 Corinthians 5:7 (see quot. 1539).

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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as lamb

the LambOE

immaculate lamb?a1475

Passover1539

1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. v. 7 For Christ oure passeouer is offered vp for vs.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. viii. iii. 783 Christ their Passeover is now sacrificed for them.

a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 118 So Christ our Passover had not passt ore Full fifty dayes before in fiery wise The Law of Spirit and of Life much more Went out from Zion. Gospell Law did rise.

1735 Gentleman's Mag. July 366/1 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial.

1745 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns on Lord's Supper i. 4 Our Passover was slain At Salem's hallow'd Place.

1878 R. Wilton Lyrics 109 Since Christ, our Passover, for us was slain, 'Tis our's to keep perpetual ‘holy day’.

1990 Christian Herald 9 June 7/3 Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 5 of Christ as our passover sacrificed for us.

1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. 13 At the centre of our Easter communion we declare Christ our passover has been sacrificed.

II. Senses relating to to pass over at pass v. Phrasal verbs 1).

3. Now chiefly with lower-case initial. An act of passing from one state or condition to the next; spec. (a) the action of passing from this world to the next; (b) conversion from one religion to another.

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the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

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starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

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mortality1582

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expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

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dismissiona1631

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suffering1651

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Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

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expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun]

conversationa1382

conversiona1400

convincementa1617

converting1633

discipling1653

convertism1716

conversionism1885

Passover1889

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 530 On the Evening before his [sc. Laud's] Passover, the night before the dismal Combate betwixt him and Death.

1889 S. J. Eales tr. J. Mabillon Life & Wks. St. Bernard I. 35 When he made his passover, that is when he was converted from Judaism to Christianity.

1992 Independent (Nexis) 7 Mar. 33 The monstrous passage into the void becomes the passover into life.

1998 Contemp. Women's Issues Database (Nexis) An ever-recurring passover from slavery to freedom.

†4. Scottish. An act of passing over or ignoring something in speech or writing; an intentional omission. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission

overleapOE

omissiona1440

overskippingc1450

setting bya1592

omittancea1616

elision1812

Passover1822

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 53 I wish to Heaven I was mair worthy of the name; but let that be a pass-over.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. i. 7 A passage in my history that should not be a passover.

1833 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 396 I could master the tenth chapter of Nehemiah, without making above a dozen pass-overs.

1890 Brechin Advertiser 9 Sept. There's some twa'r three fine farms o' which we canna mak' a passover.

†5. concrete. A path or pass over hills. Obsolete. rare.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground

portc1275

pacec1330

close?a1400

destrayt1481

gate1601

gut1615

passc1650

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bealach1794

ca1795

poort1834

Passover1839

droke1848

gateway1884

1839 Z. Leonard Narr. Adventures (1904) 230 We..continued all day without any interruption, and in the evening encamped at the foot of the passover.

Compounds

General attributive, as Passover cake, Passover meal, Passover lamb, etc.

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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > bread > [noun] > used or eaten at Passover

Passover cake1538

azyme1582

matzo1650

afikoman1842

society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > lamb

Easter offeringa1387

pasch-lamba1400

paschal lamba1500

Passover1530

Passover lamb1538

paschal1656

1538 J. Bale God's Promises iv. sig. C.iv The passe ouer lambe, wyll be a token iust, Of thys stronge couenaunt.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Civ The Passouer lambe was a sygne, a toaken, and a remembraunce.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxxv. 7 Iosiah gaue to the people, of the flocke, lambes and kiddes, all for the Passeouer-offerings.

1753 Jewish Ritual 35 The eating of Matzah, i.e. Passover Cake.

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. vi. v. 201 ‘We are to be rewarded for our pains by eating passover cakes.’ ‘What are they?’ ‘Festival bread of the Hebrews, made in the new moon, with the milk of he-goats.’

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Passover-bread, Passover-cake, a thin unleavened cake, used among the Jews at the festival of the Passover.

1886 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 15 42 Josephus mentions that the foreigners who came to worship at Jerusalem were not allowed to share the Passover meal.

1904 Jewish Encycl. VI. 142/2 The opinion of Friedmann..that special books containing the Passover service existed in Talmudic times.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 207/1 Husbands knew that leckach was the ambrosia to accompany the nectary Passover wine.

1984 Christadelphian June 204/1 He could no longer take a lamb to the temple that the priests might slay it before he and his family ate it as the Passover meal.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 216/2 Moed, in Judaism, the division of the Mishnah which deals with the laws of the sabbath, high holy days, Passover sacrifices, and similar laws to do with feasts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	passover
释义	Passovern. Brit. /ˈpɑːsˌəʊvə/, /ˈpasˌəʊvə/, U.S. /ˈpæsˌoʊvər/ Forms: see pass v. and over adv. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to pass over at pass v. Phrasal verbs 1. Etymology: < to pass over at pass v. Phrasal verbs 1. In sense 1 after Hebrew pesaḥ Pesach n. < pāsaḥ to pass or spring over (see pasch n.). Compare earlier passing over n. at passing n. Phrases 2a.The festival is named after the Lord's ‘passing over’ the houses of the People of Israel, whose doorposts were marked with the blood of a lamb, while the Egyptians were punished with the death of their firstborn (Exodus 11–12). I. Senses relating to the Jewish festival. 1. a. The major Jewish spring festival which commemorates the liberation of the People of Israel from Egyptian bondage, lasting seven days (in Israel) or eight days (in the Diaspora) from the 15th day of Nisan. Cf. Pesach n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Passover > [noun] EasterOE phaseOE paschOE forthforea1325 fasea1425 Passover1530 passing-by1533 paschala1535 azyme1582 feast1611 Pesach1613 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xii. f. xviii^v And ye shall eate it in haste, for it is the Lordes passeouer. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Exod. xii. 43 This is the maner of the kepynge of Passeouer. 1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse 62 If the eating [of the Pascal lamb] had bene omitted..the whole action of the Pasouer wes but a sacrifice. 1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 49 The circumstance of the Evening, and of the infermentation belonged peculiarly to the feast of the Passover, and of the unleavened bread. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 687 Baptism is clearer than Circumcision, Lords Supper than Passeover. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. v. 67 This Custom of bidding the Passover on the Day of the Epiphany. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 17/2 The modern Jews observe in general the same ceremonies that were practised by their ancestors, in the celebration of the passover. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 304 Passover..also called the feast of unleavened bread. 1893 J. A. Broadus Harm. Gospels 243 The Bi-paschal theory makes the time of the public life of Jesus one year, allowing only two Passovers to the Gospel of John. 1947 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 12 195/2 He was introduced to matzoth when a Jewish woman brought some to his family on Passover. 1963 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 4 337 The only restriction of which the Jews complained was the prohibition of exhibiting the Tora in public at Passover. 2002 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Jan. 150/2 The Palestinian leader called to congratulate him on the birth of twin grandsons and to wish him a happy Passover. b. In extended use, applied to other festivals, holidays, or celebrations. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > passover passing-by1523 by-passing1526 pass-by1550 Passover1726 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 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. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 77 By the first name [sc. green ear of corn], the Indians, as an explicative, term their passover. 1825 Lancet 23 July 76/1 It is a time sacred to idleness... It is the grand ‘Passover’ of authors, when they exchange their books for brooks. 1995 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) (Nexis) 27 Mar. e1 Bob Hope used to refer to Oscar time as ‘passover’ at his house. 1999 Asheville Citizen-Times (North Carolina) (Nexis) 31 Dec. 2 b Jubilee Day for Black Americans is a type of passover. It too portends of the miraculous. 2. a. (a) The lamb eaten at the Passover festival; the Passover meal; (hence, among Christians) the Last Supper; †(b) The lamb sacrificed at the Passover, the paschal lamb (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > lamb Easter offeringa1387 pasch-lamba1400 paschal lamba1500 Passover1530 Passover lamb1538 paschal1656 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xii. f. xix Chouse out and take to euery housholde a shepe, and kyll passeouer. 1581 R. Goade in Confer. (1584) iii. X j b The Pascall lambe is called the passeouer. 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxii. 8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Goe and prepare vs the Passeouer, that we may eate. View more context for this quotation 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 134 To keepe themselves from all legall pollution, that they might bee capable of eating the Passover. a1680 S. Charnock Wks. (1684) II. 847 The lamb was called the passover. The sign for the thing signified. 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 199 After he had eaten the Passover, and instituted the solemn Rite, which was to supercede it. 1869 D. Greenwell Carmina Crucis ii. 75 This Passover with bitter herbs how long Have I desired to eat. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Ave in Wks. (1911) 39 Through His boyhood, year by year Eating with Him the Passover. 1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 595/2 His crucifixion takes place on the selfsame day on which the Passover was eaten. 1999 Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska) (Nexis) 11 May 19 Luke 22 records that Jesus did indeed eat the Passover. 2003 Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader (Nexis) 17 Apr. 1 b Jesus ate Passover, a lamb that was slain, every year. b. Christian Church. Christ, of whom the paschal lamb is regarded as the type or symbol.Frequently with allusion to 1 Corinthians 5:7 (see quot. 1539). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > as lamb the LambOE immaculate lamb?a1475 Passover1539 1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. v. 7 For Christ oure passeouer is offered vp for vs. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. viii. iii. 783 Christ their Passeover is now sacrificed for them. a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 118 So Christ our Passover had not passt ore Full fifty dayes before in fiery wise The Law of Spirit and of Life much more Went out from Zion. Gospell Law did rise. 1735 Gentleman's Mag. July 366/1 The Paschal Lamb being not the real Passover but a Memorial. 1745 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Hymns on Lord's Supper i. 4 Our Passover was slain At Salem's hallow'd Place. 1878 R. Wilton Lyrics 109 Since Christ, our Passover, for us was slain, 'Tis our's to keep perpetual ‘holy day’. 1990 Christian Herald 9 June 7/3 Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 5 of Christ as our passover sacrificed for us. 1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. 13 At the centre of our Easter communion we declare Christ our passover has been sacrificed. II. Senses relating to to pass over at pass v. Phrasal verbs 1). 3. Now chiefly with lower-case initial. An act of passing from one state or condition to the next; spec. (a) the action of passing from this world to the next; (b) conversion from one religion to another. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] conversationa1382 conversiona1400 convincementa1617 converting1633 discipling1653 convertism1716 conversionism1885 Passover1889 a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 530 On the Evening before his [sc. Laud's] Passover, the night before the dismal Combate betwixt him and Death. 1889 S. J. Eales tr. J. Mabillon Life & Wks. St. Bernard I. 35 When he made his passover, that is when he was converted from Judaism to Christianity. 1992 Independent (Nexis) 7 Mar. 33 The monstrous passage into the void becomes the passover into life. 1998 Contemp. Women's Issues Database (Nexis) An ever-recurring passover from slavery to freedom. †4. Scottish. An act of passing over or ignoring something in speech or writing; an intentional omission. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [noun] > exclusion from a category, etc. > non-inclusion or omission overleapOE omissiona1440 overskippingc1450 setting bya1592 omittancea1616 elision1812 Passover1822 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. iii. 53 I wish to Heaven I was mair worthy of the name; but let that be a pass-over. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. i. 7 A passage in my history that should not be a passover. 1833 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 396 I could master the tenth chapter of Nehemiah, without making above a dozen pass-overs. 1890 Brechin Advertiser 9 Sept. There's some twa'r three fine farms o' which we canna mak' a passover. †5. concrete. A path or pass over hills. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through hills or difficult ground portc1275 pacec1330 close?a1400 destrayt1481 gate1601 gut1615 passc1650 defile1685 ghat1698 mountain pass1707 bealach1794 ca1795 poort1834 Passover1839 droke1848 gateway1884 1839 Z. Leonard Narr. Adventures (1904) 230 We..continued all day without any interruption, and in the evening encamped at the foot of the passover. Compounds General attributive, as Passover cake, Passover meal, Passover lamb, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > bread > [noun] > used or eaten at Passover Passover cake1538 azyme1582 matzo1650 afikoman1842 society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > lamb Easter offeringa1387 pasch-lamba1400 paschal lamba1500 Passover1530 Passover lamb1538 paschal1656 1538 J. Bale God's Promises iv. sig. C.iv The passe ouer lambe, wyll be a token iust, Of thys stronge couenaunt. 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Civ The Passouer lambe was a sygne, a toaken, and a remembraunce. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Chron. xxxv. 7 Iosiah gaue to the people, of the flocke, lambes and kiddes, all for the Passeouer-offerings. View more context for this quotation 1753 Jewish Ritual 35 The eating of Matzah, i.e. Passover Cake. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred III. vi. v. 201 ‘We are to be rewarded for our pains by eating passover cakes.’ ‘What are they?’ ‘Festival bread of the Hebrews, made in the new moon, with the milk of he-goats.’ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Passover-bread, Passover-cake, a thin unleavened cake, used among the Jews at the festival of the Passover. 1886 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 15 42 Josephus mentions that the foreigners who came to worship at Jerusalem were not allowed to share the Passover meal. 1904 Jewish Encycl. VI. 142/2 The opinion of Friedmann..that special books containing the Passover service existed in Talmudic times. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 207/1 Husbands knew that leckach was the ambrosia to accompany the nectary Passover wine. 1984 Christadelphian June 204/1 He could no longer take a lamb to the temple that the priests might slay it before he and his family ate it as the Passover meal. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 216/2 Moed, in Judaism, the division of the Mishnah which deals with the laws of the sabbath, high holy days, Passover sacrifices, and similar laws to do with feasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1530
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