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English → English (gcide) Definition: To come to pass Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Passed; p. pr. & vb. n. Passing.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See Pace.] 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. ``But now pass over [i. e., pass on].'' --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands. [1913 Webster] Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. [1913 Webster] Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. [1913 Webster] So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. [1913 Webster] Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. [1913 Webster] Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi. 35 [1913 Webster] 6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. “Let him pass for a man.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. [1913 Webster] This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. [1913 Webster] 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. [1913 Webster] 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. “The play may pass.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. [1913 Webster] 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] “This passes, Master Ford.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. [1913 Webster] 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. [1913 Webster] 16. (Card Playing) To decline to play in one's turn; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. [1913 Webster] She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. [1913 Webster] To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come. To pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. “The heavens shall pass away.” --2 Pet. iii. 10. “I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.” --Tennyson. To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. To pass on, to proceed. To pass on or To pass upon. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. “So death passed upon all men.” --Rom. v. 12. “Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.” --Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. “We may not pass upon his life.” --Shak. To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. [1913 Webster] Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n. Coming.] [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D. komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan. komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. ? to go, Skr. gam. [root]23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.] 1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. [1913 Webster] Look, who comes yonder? --Shak. [1913 Webster] I did not come to curse thee. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. [1913 Webster] When we came to Rome. --Acts xxviii. 16. [1913 Webster] Lately come from Italy. --Acts xviii. 2. [1913 Webster] 3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance. “Thy kingdom come.” --Matt. vi. 10. [1913 Webster] The hour is coming, and now is. --John. v. 25. [1913 Webster] So quick bright things come to confusion. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another. [1913 Webster] From whence come wars? --James iv. 1. [1913 Webster] Both riches and honor come of thee ! --1 Chron. xxix. 12. [1913 Webster] 5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. [1913 Webster] Then butter does refuse to come. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster] 6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied. [1913 Webster] How come you thus estranged? --Shak. [1913 Webster] How come her eyes so bright? --Shak. [1913 Webster] Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to be gives a clearer adjectival significance to the participle as expressing a state or condition of the subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the completion of the action signified by the verb. [1913 Webster] Think not that I am come to destroy. --Matt. v. 17. [1913 Webster] We are come off like Romans. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. --Bryant. [1913 Webster] Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall come home next week; he will come to your house to-day. It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary, indicative of approach to the action or state expressed by the verb; as, how came you to do it? Come is used colloquially, with reference to a definite future time approaching, without an auxiliary; as, it will be two years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall come. [1913 Webster] They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday. --Lowell. Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us go. “This is the heir; come, let us kill him.” --Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. “Come, come, no time for lamentation now.” --Milton. [1913 Webster] To come, yet to arrive, future. “In times to come.” --Dryden. “There's pippins and cheese to come.” --Shak. To come about. (a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as, how did these things come about? (b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about. “The wind is come about.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, They are come about, and won to the true side. --B. Jonson. To come abroad. (a) To move or be away from one's home or country. “Am come abroad to see the world.” --Shak. (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] “Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.” --Mark. iv. 22. To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. “We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars.” --E. A. Freeman. “Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across.” --H. R. Haweis. To come after. (a) To follow. (b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a book. To come again, to return. “His spirit came again and he revived.” --Judges. xv. 19. - To come and go. (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. “The color of the king doth come and go.” --Shak. (b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward. To come at. (a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to come at a true knowledge of ourselves. (b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with fury. To come away, to part or depart. To come between, to intervene; to separate; hence, to cause estrangement. To come by. (a) To obtain, gain, acquire. “Examine how you came by all your state.” --Dryden. (b) To pass near or by way of. To come down. (a) To descend. (b) To be humbled. To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand. [Colloq.] --Dickens. To come home. (a) To return to one's house or family. (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason. (c) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an anchor. To come in. (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. “The thief cometh in.” --Hos. vii. 1. (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in. (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in. (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. “We need not fear his coming in” --Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. “Silken garments did not come in till late.” --Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. --Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.] To come in for, to claim or receive. “The rest came in for subsidies.” --Swift. To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme. To come it over, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] To come near or To come nigh, to approach in place or quality; to be equal to. “Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it.” --Sir W. Temple. To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. “Of Priam's royal race my mother came.” --Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. “This comes of judging by the eye.” --L'Estrange. To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off well. (d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.); as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a come-off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.] (e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.] (f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come off? (g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. --Chaucer. To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] “To come off by the worst.” --Calamy. To come off from, to leave. “To come off from these grave disquisitions.” --Felton. To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene. To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. “They shall come out with great substance.” --Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. “It is indeed come out at last.” --Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out? he has come out well at last. (d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two seasons ago. (e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out. (f) To take sides; to announce a position publicly; as, he came out against the tariff. (g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual. To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose. To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. “Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them.” --Addison. (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation. To come over to, to join. To come round. (a) To recur in regular course. (b) To recover. [Colloq.] (c) To change, as the wind. (d) To relent. --J. H. Newman. (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.] To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” --Rom. iii. 23. To come to. (a) To consent or yield. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon. (d) To arrive at; to reach. (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. --Shak. To come to blows. See under Blow. To come to grief. See under Grief. To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot. To come to one's self, to recover one's senses. To come to pass, to happen; to fall out. To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and “time” is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] To come together. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. --Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. --Matt. i. 18. To come true, to happen as predicted or expected. To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class. To come up (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. --Totten. To come up to, to rise to; to equal. To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit. To come upon. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure. [1913 Webster]