Though well we may not pass upon his life, Without the form of justice; yet our pow'r Shall do a court'sy to our wrath. 20. To be supremely excellent Shakesp. Underwood. Sir Hudibras's passing worth, Against each other, and with sword and lance 22. To onit. Dryden. Prior. Full piteous seems young Alma's case, As in a luckless gamester's place, She would not play, yet must not pass. 23. To go through the alimentary duct. Substances hard cannot be dissolved, but they will pass; but such, whose tenacity exceeds the powers of digestion, will neither pass, nor he converted into aliment. Arbuthnot. 24. To be in a tolerable state. A middling sort of man was left well enough to pass by his father, but could never think he had enough, so long as any had more. L'Estrange. 25. To pass away. off. To be lost; to glide Defining the soul to be a substance that always thinks, can serve but to make many men suspect, that they have no souls at all, since they find a good part of their lives pass away without thinking. Locke. 26. To pass away. As it is advantageable to a physician to be called to the cure of a declining disease; so it is for a commander to suppress a sedition, which has passed the height; for in both the noxious humour doth first weaken and afterwards waste to nothing. Hayward. 2. To go through: as, the horse passed the river. 3. To spend; to live through. Were I not assured he was removed to advantage, I should pass my time extremely ill without him. Collier. You know in what deluding joys we past The people, free from cares, serene and gay, Addison. In the midst of the service, a lady who had passed the winter at London with her husband, entered the congregation. Addison. 4. To impart to any thing the power of moving. Dr. Thurston thinks the principal use of inspiration to be, to move, or pass the blood, from the right to the left ventricle of the heart. Derham. 5. To carry hastily. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number. Addison on Italy. 6. To transfer to another proprietor. He that will pass his land, As I have mine, may set his hand And heart unto this deed, when he hath read; 7. To strain; to percolate. Herbert. They speak of severing wine from water, passing it through ivy wood. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 8. To vent; to pronounce. How many thousands take upon them to pass their censures on the personal actions of others, and pronounce boldly on the affairs of the publick? Watts. They will commend the work in general, but Pas so many sly remarks upon it afterwards, as sball destroy all their cold praises. 9. To utter ceremoniously. Watts on the Mind. She more sweet than any bird on bough, The ancestor and all his heirs, 14. To omit; to neglect; whether to do It co duces much to our content, if we pass by those things which happen to our trouble, and consider that which is prosperous; hat, by the representation of the better, the wore may be blotted out. Taylor's Holy Living. Certain passages of scripture we cannot, without injury to truth, pass by here in silence. Burnet. 24. To pass over. To omit; to let go unregarded. Better to pass him o'er, than to relate The cause I have your mighty sire to hate. Dryden. It does not belong to this place to have that point debated, nor will it hinder our pursuit to pass it over in silence Watts. The poet passes it o ter as hastily as he can, as if he were afraid of staying in the cave. Dryden. The queen asked him, who he was; but he passes over this without any reply, and reserves the greatest part of his story to a time of more leisure. Broome. PASS. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. A narrow entrance; an avenue. Dryden. 3. A permission to go or come any where. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. 15. To transcend; to transgress. 16. To admit; to allow. The money of every one that passeth the account, let the priests take. 2 Kings, xii. 4. Hudibras. I'll pass them all upon account, As if your nat'ral self had don't. 17. To enact a law. How does that man know, but the decree may Among the laws that pass'd, it was decreed, 4. Could the same parliament, which addressed 18. To impose fraudulently. The indulgent mother did her care employ, The father waketh for the daughter, lest she 23. To pass by. To neglect; to disre- How far ought this enterprize to wait upon They shall protect all that come in, and send them to the lord deputy, with their safe-conduct or pass, to be at his disposition. Spenser on Ireland. We bid this be done, Shakesp. When evil deeds have their permissive pass, Chapman. An order by which vagrants or impotent persons are sent to their place of abode. 5. Push; thrust in fencing. Of mighty opposites. 6. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Shakesp. Hamlet. The king hath laid, that in a dozen passes between you and him, he shall not exceed you three hits. Shakes. With seeming innocence the crow beguil'd; But made the desperate passes, when he smil'd. Dryden. State; condition. To what a pass are our minds brought, that from the right line of virtue, are wryed to these crooked shifts? Sidney. After king Henry united the roses, they laboured to reduce Loth English and Irish, which work, to what pass and perfection it was brought in queen Elizabeth's reign, hath been declared, Davies's State of Ireland. In my feare of hospitable Jove, Thou didst to this passe my affections move. PA'SSABLE. adj. [ passible, Fr. from pass.] 1. Possible to be passed or travelled through or over. His body is a passable carkass, if he be not hurt. It is a thoroughfare for steel. Shakesp. Antiochus departed in all haste, weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the sea passable by foot. 2 Maccab. 2. Supportable; tolerable; allowable. They are crafty and of a passable reach of understanding Howel. Lay by Virgil, my version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. Dryden. White and red well mingled on the face, make what was before but passable, appear beautiful. Dryden. 3. Capable of admission or reception. In counterfeits, it is with men as with false money; one piece is more or less passable than another. L Estrange. These stage advocates are not only without truth, but without clour: could they have made the slander passable, we should have heard farther. 4. Popular; well received. This is a sense less usual. Collier. The story of such a passage was true, and Jason with the rest went indeed to rob Colchos, to which they might arrive by boat. Raleigh's Hist. Milton. 3. 4. I wish for the wings of an eagle, to fly away to 12. those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death. Addison. I have often stopped all the passages to prevent the ants going to their own nest. Addison. When the gravel is separated from the kidney, oily substances relax the passages. Arbuthnot. Entrance or exit; liberty to pass. What, are my doors oppos'd against my passage? Shakesp. You shall furnish me With cloake, and coate, and make my passage free For lov'd Dulichius. Chapman. The state of decay. Not in use. Would some part of my young years Might but redeem the passage of your age! Shakesp. 5. Intellectual admittance; mental accept 6. 7. ance. I would render this treatise intelligible to every rational man, however little versed in scholastick learning, among whom I expect it will have a fairer passage than among those deeply imbued with other principles. Digby. Occurrence; hap. It is no act of common passage, but A strain of rareness. Shakesp. Unsettled state; aptness by condition or nature to change the place of abode. Traders in Ireland are but factors; the cause must be rather an ill opinion of security than of gain: the last intices the poorer traders, young beginners, or those of passage; but without the first, the rich will never settle in the country. Temple. In man the judgment shoots at flying game; A bird of passage! lost as soon as found; Now in the moon perhaps, now under ground, 8. Incident; transaction. So shalt thou best prepar'd endure Thy mortal passage when it comes. All have liberty to take fish, which they do by standing in the water by the holes, and so inter-9 cepting their passage take great plenty of them, which otherwise would follow the water under ground. Brown's Travels. Live like those who look upon themselves as being only on their passage through this state, but as belonging to that which is to come. Atterbury. Though the passage be troublesome, yet it is secure, and shall in a little time bring us ease and Wake. peace at the last. In souls prepar'd, the passage is a breath From time t'eternity, from life to death. Harte. 2. Road; way. Human actions are so uncertain as that seemeth the best course, which hath most passages out of it. Bacon The land enterprize of l'anama was grounded upon a false account, that the passages towards it were no better fortified than D'ake had left them. A passage down to th' earth, a passage wide. Milton. To bleed to death was one of the most desirable passages out of this world. Fell. Pope. This business as it is a very high passage of state, so it is worthy of serious consideration. Hayward. Thou do'st in thy passages of life Make me believe that thou art only mark'd For the hot vengeance of heav'n. Management; conduct. Shakesp. Upon consideration of the conduct and passage of affairs in former times, the state of England ought to be cleared of an imputation cast upon it. Davies. 10. Part of a book; single place in a writing. Endroit, Fr. A critick who has no taste nor learning, seldom ventures to praise any passage in an author who has not been before received by the publick. Addison. As to the cantos, all the passages are as fabulous as the vision at the beginning. Pope. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candie to the sun. Young. PASSED. Preterite and participle of pass. When the passage is open, land will be turned. most to great cattle; when shut, to sheep. Temp. The Persian army had advancen into the straight passages of Cilicia, by which means Alexander with his small arry was able to fight and Conquer them. South. The passage made by many a winding way, A traveller; one who is upon the road; a wayfarer. All the way, the wanton damsel found New mirth, her passenger to entertain. Spenser. What hollowing, and what stir is this? These are my mates that make their wills their law, Have some unhappy passenger in chase. Shakesp. The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wand'ring passenger.. Milton. Apelles, when he had finished any work, ex posed it to the sight of all passengers, and concealed himself to hear the censure of his faults. Dryd. One who hires in any vehicle the f berty of travelling. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth attend the unskilful words of a passenger. Sidney. PA'SSENGER falcon. n. s. A kind of migratory hawk. Ainsworth. PA'SSER. n. s. [from pass.] One who passes; one that is upon the road. Under you ride the home and foreign shipping in so near a distance, that, without troubling the passer, or borrowing Stentor's voice, you may confer with any in the town. Carew. Have we so soon forgot, When, like a matron, butcher'd by her sons, Our groaning country bled at every vein? Rowe. PASSIBILITY. n. s. [ passibilite, Fr. from passible.] Quality of receiving impres sions from external agents. The last doubt, touching the passibility of the matter of the heavens is drawn from the eclipses of the sun and moon. Hakewill PA'SSIBLE. adj. [passible, Fr. passibilis, Lat.] Susceptive of impressions from external agents. Theodoret disputeth with great earnestness, that God cannot be said to suffer; but he thereby meaneth Christ's divine nature against Apollina rius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker. PA'SSIBLENESS. n. s. [from passible.] Quality of receiving impressions from external agents. It drew after it the heresy of the passibleness of the deity; the deity of Christ was become, in their conceits, the same nature with the humanity that Brerewood. was passible. PA'SSING. participial adj. [from pass.] For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight. Shakesp. PASSION-FLOWER. n. s. [granadilla, Lat.] A flower. Gravity and passiveness in children is not from discretion, but phlegme. Fell. PASSIVITY. n. s. [from passive.] Passiveness. An innovated word. There being no mean between penetrability and impenetrability, between passivity and activity, these being contrary and opposite, the infinite rarefaction of the one quality is the position of its contrary. Cheyne's Philosophical Principles. PA'SSOVER. n. s. [pass and over.] 1. A feast instituted among the Jews in memory of the time when God, smiting the first born of the Egyptians, passed over the habitations of the Hebrews. I made Melesinda, in opposition to Nourmahal, 2. They lay the blame on the poor little ones PASSIONATENESS. n. s. [from passi- 1. State of being subject to passion. 2. Vehemence of mind. To love with some passionateness the person you would marry, is not only allowable but expedient. Boyle. PA'SSIVE. adj. [passif, Fr. passivus, Lat.] 1. Receiving impression from some external agent. High above the ground Their march was, and the passive air upbore Their nimble tread. Milton's Parad. Lost. The active informations of the intellect, filling the passive reception of the will, like form closing with matter, grew actuate into a third and distinct perfection of practice. South. As the mind is wholly passive in the reception The Jews passover was at hand, and Jesus went up. John, ii. 13. The Lord's passover, commonly called Easter, was ordered by the common law to be celebrated every year on a Sunday. Ayliffe. The sacrifice killed. Exodus. Take a lamb, and kill the passover. PA'SSPORT. n. s. [passport, Fr.] Permission of passage. Under that pretext, fain she would have given a secret passport to her affection. Sidney. Giving his reason passport for to pass Whither it would, so it would let him die. Sidney. Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse. Shakesp. Having used extreme caution in granting passports to Ireland, he conceived that paper not to have been delivered. Clarendon. The gospel has then only a free admission into the assent of the understanding, when it brings a passport from a rightly disposed will, as being the faculty of dominion, that commands all, that shuts out, and lets in, what objects it pleases. South. Admitted in the shining throng He shows the passport which he brought along; His passport is his innocence and grace, Well known to all the natives of the place. Dryd. At our meeting in another world; For thou hast drunk thy passport out of this. Dryden. Dame nature gave him comeliness and health, And fortune, for a passport, gave him wealth. Harte. of all its simple ideas, so it exerts several acts of PAST. participial adj. [from pass.] Miller. PASSION-WEEK. n. s. The week immediately preceding Easter, named in commemoration of our Saviour's crucifixion. PASSIONATE. adj. [passionné, Fr.] 1. Moved by passion; feeling or expressing great commotion of mind. its own, whereby out of its simple idea, the other is formed. Locke. 1. The vis inertia is a passive principle by which bodies persist in their motion or rest, receive motion in proportion to the force impressing it, and resist as much as they are resisted: by this principle alone, there never could have been any motion in the world. Newton's Opticks. 2. Unresisting; not opposing. My whole endeavour is to resolve the conscience, and to shew what, in this controversy, the heart is to think, if it will follow the light of 3. sound and sincere judgment, without either cloud 4. of prejudice or mist of passionate affection. Hooker. Thucydides observes, that men are much more Passionate for injustice than for violence; because the one coming as from an equal seems rapine; when the other proceeding from one stronger is but the effect of necessity. Not those alone, who passive own her laws, But who, weak rebels, more advance her cause. Suffering; not acting. In grammar.] worst. Not present; not to come. Past, and to come, seem best; things present Shakesp. For several months past, papers have been written upon the best publick principle, the love of our country. Swift. This not alone has shone on ages past, But lights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope. Pope. A verb passive is that which signifies passion or the effect of action: as doceor, I am taught. Clarke's Latin Grammar. PA'SSIVELY. av. [from passive.] Clarendon 1. With a passive nature. In his prayers, as his attention was fixt and steady, so was it inflamed with passionate fervors Though some are passively inclin'd, Fell. The greater part degenerate from their kind. Good angels looked upon this ship of Noah's with a passionate concern for its safety. Burnet. 2. Without agency VOL. II 1. Beyond in time. Sarah was delivered of a child, when she was past age. Dryden. 2. No longer capable of. Hebrews, xi. 11. Fervent prayers he made, when he was esteemed PA'STEBOARD.adj. Made of pasteboard. PA'STEL. n. s. [glastum.] past sense, and so spent his last breath in commit- disheartened. 8. Beyond; out of reach of. PA'STERN. n. s. [pasturon, Fr.] Love, when once past government, is conse-2. quently past shame. L'Estrange her care. Her life she might have had; but the despair We will go by the king's high way, until we be 5. Above; more than. The northern Irish Scots have bows not past three quarters of a yard long, with a string of wreathed hemp, and their arrows not much above an ell. Spenser on Ireland. The same inundation was not deep, not past forty foot from the ground. Bacon. PASTE. n. s. [paste, Fr.] 1. Any thing mixed up so as to be viscous and tenacious: such as flour and water for bread or pies; or various kinds of earth mingled for the potter. Except you could bray Christendom in a mortar, and mould it in a new paste, there is no possibility of an holy war. Bacon. With particles of heav'nly fire And mixt with living streams, the godlike image cast. Dryden. When the gods moulded up the paste of man, Some of their dough was left upon their hands. Dryden. He has the whitest hand that ever you saw, and raises paste better than any woman. Addison's Spectator. 2. Flour and water boiled together so as to make a cement. 3. Artificial mixture, in imitation of pre- To PASTE. v. a. [paster, Fr. from the By pasting the vowels and consonants on the sides of dice, his eldest son played himself into spelling. Locke. Young creatures have learned their letters and syllables, by having them pasted upon little flat tablets. Watts. PA'STEBOARD. n. s. [paste and board.] Masses made anciently by pasting one paper on another: now made sometimes by macerating paper and casting it in moulds, sometimes by pounding old cordage, and casting it in forms, I will not change my horse with any that treads Being heavy, he should not tread stiff, but have The legs of a human creature in con- So straight she walk'd, and on her pasterns high: Dryden. PASTIL. n. s. [pastillus, Lat. pastille, To draw with dry colours, make long pastils, by Their ord and master taught concerning the pastoralre he had over his own flock. Hooker. The bishop of Salisbury recommendeth the tenth satire of Juvenal, in his pastoral letter, to the serious perusal of the divines of his diocese. Dryden. PA'STORAL. n. s. A poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life: or according to the common practice in which speakers take upon them the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolick. Pastoral is an imitation of the action of a shepherd; the form of this imitation is dramatick or narrative, or mixed of both, the fable simple, the manners not too polite nor too rustick. Pope. The best actors in the world, for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral. Shal esp. Humict. Tere ought to be the same difference between pastorals and elegies, as between the life of the country and the court; the latter should be smooth, clean, tender, and passionate: the thoughts may be bold, more gay, and more elevated than in pastoral. Walsh. PASTRY. n. s. [pastissarie, Fr. from paste.] 1. The act of making pies. Let never fresh machines your pastry try, PA'STIME. n. s. [pass and time.] Sport; 2. Pies or baked paste. amusement; diversion. It was more requisite for Zelmane's hurt to rest, than sit up at those pastimes; but she, that felt no wound but one, earnestly desired to have the pastorals. Sidney. 3. I'll be as patient as a gentle stream, Pastime passing excellent, Shakesp. With these A man, much addicted to luxury, recreation, refined, that he can taste these entertainments PASTOR. n. s. [pastor, Lat. pasteur, old 1. A shepherd. 2. Receive this present by the muses made,, The pastor shears their hoary beards, A clergyman who has the care of a Remember The seed cake, the pasteries, and the furmenty pot ganie, Beasts of chase, or fowls of The place where pastry is made. I wish you knew what my husband has paid to the pastrycooks and confectioners. Arbuthnot. PA'STURABLE. adj. [from pasture.] Fit for pasture. PA'STURAGE. n. s. [pasturage, Fr.] 1. The business of feeding cattle. I wish there were ordinances, that whosoever keepeth twenty kine, should keep a plough going for otherwise all men would fall to pasturage, and none to husbandry. Spenser. 2. Lands grazed by cattle. The pastor maketh suits of the people, and they with one voice testify a general assent thereunto, or he joyfully beginneth, and they with like alacrity follow, dividing between them the sentences wherewith they strive, which shall much shew his own, and stir up others zeal to the glory of God. Hooke South 2. Ground on which cattle feed. A careless herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him, And never stays. Shakesp. As you like it. When there was not room for their herds to feed together, they, by consent, separated and enlarged their pasture where it best liked them. To PA'STURE. v. a [from the noun.] To place in a pasture. To PASTURE. v. n. [from the noun.] To graze on the ground. The cattle in the fields and meadows green, Those rare and solitary; these in flocks Pasturing at once, and in broad herds up sprung. Milton. PASTY. n. s. [paste, Fr.] A pie of crust raised without a dish. Of the paste a coffin will I rear, And make two pasties of your shameful heads. Shakesp. I will confess what I know; if ye pinch me Shakesp. like a pasty I can say no more. If you'd fright an alderman and mayor, Within a pasty lodge a living hare. A man of sober life, Not quite a madman, though a pasty fell, And much too wise to walk into a well. King. Pope. Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. Pope. PATACHE. n. s. A small ship. Ainsw. PATACOON. n. s. A Spanish coin worth four shillings and eight pence English. Ainsworth. To PATCH. v. n. [pudtzer, Dan. pezzare, Ital.] 1. To cover with a piece sewed on. They would think themselves miserable in a patched coat, and yet their minds appear in a piebald livery of coarse patches and borrowed shreds. Locke. 2. To decorate the face with small spots of black silk. In the middle boxes, were several ladies who patched both sides of their faces. Addison's Spect. We bege'd her but to patch her face, She never hit one proper place. Swift. of the Assyrian princes, we shall but patch up the story at adventure, and leave it in confusion. Raleigh's History. His glorious end was a patch'd work of fate, Ill sorted with a soft effeminate life. Dryden. There is that visible symmetry in a human body, as gives an intrinsick evidence, that it was not formed successively and patched up by piecemeal. Bentley. Enlarging an author's sense, and building fancies of our own upon his foundation, we may call paraphrasing; but more properly changing, addFelton. ing, patching, piecing. PATCH. n. s. [pezzo, Ital.] 1. A piece sewed on to cover a hole. Patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the flaw, Than did the flaw before it was so patch'd. Shak If the shoe be ript, or patches put; He's wounded! see the plaister on his foot. Dryd. 2. A piece inserted in Mosaick or variegated work. 3. 4. They suffer their minds to appear in a pie-bald livery of coarse patches and borrowed shreds, such as the common opinion of those they converse with clothe them in. Loche A small spot of black silk put on the face. Cleaveland. How! providence! and yet a Scottish crew! Then madam Nature wears black patches too. If to every common funeral, By your eyes martyr'd, such grace were allow'd, Your face wou'd wear not patches, but a cloud. Suckling. They were patched differently, and cast hostile glances upon one another, and their patches were placed in different situations as party signals to distinguish friends from foes. Addison. This the morning omens seem'd to tell: Thrice from my trembling hand the patch-box fell. Pope. 5. A small particle; a parcel of land. We go to gain a little patch of ground, That hath in it no profit but the name. Shakesp. A paltry fellow. Obsolete. What a py'd ninny's this? thou scurvy patch! PATCHER. n. s. [from patch.] One that patches; a botcher. PA'TCHERY. n. s. [from patch.] Botchery; bungling work; forgery. A word not in use. You hear him cogg, see him dissemble, Know his gross patchery, love him, and feed him, Yet remain assur'd that he's a made-up villain. Shakesp. PATCHWORK. n. s. [patch and work.] Work made by sewing small pieces of different colours interchangeably together. When my cloaths were finished, they looked like the patchwork, only mine were all of a colour. Swift. Whoever only reads to transcribe shining remarks, without entering into the genius and spirit of the author, will be apt to be misled out of the regular way of thinking; and all the product of alf this will be found a manifest incoherent piece of patchwork. Swift. Foreign her air, her robe's discordant pride In patchwork flutt'ring. Pope. To patchwork learn'd quotations are ally'd, Both strive to make our poverty our pride. Young. PATE. n. s. [This is derived by Skinner from tête, Fr.] Shakesp. The head. Now commonly used in contempt or ridicule; but anciently in serious language. 3. To mend clumsily; to mend so as that the original strength or beauty is lost. Any thing mended, is but patch'd. Physick can but mend our crazy state, Patch an old building, not a new create. Dryden. Broken limbs, common prudence sends us to the surgeons to piece and patch up. L'Estrange. 4. To make up of shreds or different pieces. Sometimes with up emphatical. If we seek to judge of those times, which the scriptures set us down without error, by the reigns Senseless man, that himself doth hate, To love another; Here take thy lover's token on thy pate. Spenser. "Behold the despaire, By custome and covetous pates, Tusser. if only scorn attends men for asserting the church's dignity, many will rather chuse to neglect their duty, than to get a broken pate in the church's service. South. If any young novice happens into the neighbourhood of flatterers, presently they are plying his full purse and empty pate with addresses suitable to his vanity. South. PATED. adj. [from pate.] Having a pate. It is used only in composition; as long-pated or cunning; shallowpated or foolish. PATEFACTION. n. s. [patefactio, Lat.] Act or state of opening. Ainsworth. PATEN. n. s. [patina, Lat.] A plate. Not in use. The floor of heav'n Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings. Shakesp. PATENT. adj. [patens, Lat. patent, Fr.] 1. Open to the perusal of all: as, letters patent. In Ireland, where the king disposes of bishopricks merely by his letters patent, without any Congé d'Elire, which is still kept up in England; though to no other purpose, than to shew the ancient right of the church to elect her own bishops. Lesley. 2. Something appropriated by letters på tent. Madder is esteemed a commodity that will turn to good profit; so that, in king Charles the first's time, it was made a patent commodity. Mortimer. PATENT. n. s. A writ conferring some exclusive right or privilege. If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend: if it touch not you, it comes near Shakesp. no body. So will I grow, so live, so die, Ere I will yield my virgin patent up Unto his lordship. Shakesp. Mids. Night's Dream. We are censured as obstinate, in not complying with a royal patent. Swift. PATENTEE. n. s. [from patent.] One who has a patent. If his tenant and patentee dispose of his gift, without his kingly consent, the lands shall revert to the king. Bacon. In the patent granted to lord Dartmouth, the securities obliged the patentee to receive his money back upon every demand. Swift. PATER-NÖSTER. n. s. [Lat.] The PATERNAL. adj. [paternus, Lat. paterLord's prayer. nel, Fr.] |