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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {To pass by}.
      (a) To disregard; to neglect.
      (b) To excuse; to spare; to overlook.

   {To pass off}, to impose fraudulently; to palm off. ``Passed
      himself off as a bishop.'' --Macaulay.

   {To pass (something) on} or {upon (some one)}, to put upon as
      a trick or cheat; to palm off. ``She passed the child on
      her husband for a boy.'' --Dryden.

   {To pass over}, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to
      pass over an affront.
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