Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: passage – past
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passage, n. [Fr.] (webplay: certainty, come, go, mind, opinion, run, time, town, young).
- Entrance; entryway; threshold; [fig.] flower petal; opening of a bud where a butterfly is able to alight and sip nectar.
- Mental journey; imaginary trip; fanciful excursion.
passenger (-s), n. [ME < Fr. passager, passer-by, sojourner.] (webplay: between, bird, go, hinderance, night, run, safe, sun).
- Traveler; rider; one supported or carried.
- Emigrant; pilgrim; refugee; newcomer; one seeking residence in a new country.
- Lodger; tenant; [fig.] dead person; occupant of the grave.
passer by (passer-by), n. [see pass, v.] (webplay: day, exceed, flag, foot, God, help, near, place, prayers, residence, run, spring, sun).
- One moving near; one walking by.
- Bystander; onlooker; spectator; one not directly involved.
passing, verbal adj. [see pass, v.] (webplay: air, array, bear, bird, change, come, condition, country, die, day, earth, eye, fit, flower, go, grace, hinderance, judgment, light, narrow, passing fair, passing strange, permission, road, season, sentence, sight, sun, time, try, wait, winter's).
- Occurring; taking place; in progress.
- Temporary; brief; transitory; momentary; fleeting.
- Elapsing.
- Moving by; traveling near.
passing, verbal n. [see pass, v.]
Transition; fading; disappearance; moving away; [fig.] death.
passion, n. [OFr < L. passiōn-em, suffering.] (webplay: death, Easter, feeling, strong).
- Pain; torment; intense suffering of Jesus Christ before his death; severe emotional distress or physical affliction preceding death.
- Love; deep feeling; intense desire; strong romantic attraction.
passive (-r), adj. [L. passīv-us, capable of suffering or feeling.] (webplay: death, denial, flower, God, hatred, hope, joy, quiet, right, taught).
- Heedless; unresponsive; apathetic; indifferent; inattentive; unconcerned.
- Quiet; calm; emotionless; beyond feeling; [fig.] dead.
- Transitional; [word play on “passing”] dying; moving into the next life.
- Unresisting; not opposing; yielding with little or no struggle; helpless; defenseless.
- Dormant; temporarily inactive.
past (-'s), n. [see pass, v.] (webplay: act, company, depart, foot, future, God, heart, life, mind, out of reach, past cure or help, popular, present, push, reply, road, sense, sleep, stood, stretch, supportable, time, travel).
Departed time; previous experience; recollection of former events; duration of time up to the present moment; period of life already lived.
past, prep. [see pass, v.] (webplay: between, bird, come, company, day, die, estimation, extend, go, guest, land, life, line, lost, man, mountains, move, place, possessing, sailing, seas, side, town).
- Beyond; further than.
- Out of reach of.
- After.
past, verbal adj. [see pass, v.] (webplay: bird, certainty, come, day, die, earth, fit, foot, go, hour, juices, life, manner, mouth, north, offer, open, place, run, south).
- Gone; departed; finished; done; over; ended; concluded.
- Previous; former.
- No longer available.
- Withered; faded; bereft of former glory; no longer in bloom.