- (v.i.) Reception; currency.
- (v.i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car or the like; travel; right, liberty or means, of passing; conveyance.
- (v.i.) A continuous course, process or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
- (v.i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
- (v.i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
- (v.i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
- (v.i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; especially, a portion of a book, speech or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
- (v.i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; especially, the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.
- (v.i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
- (v.i.) A separate part of a course, process or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
- (v.i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
- (v.i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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