Pasch

[ pask ]

noun

the Jewish festival of Passover.
Easter.

Origin of Pasch

before 1150; Middle English, Old English <Late Latin Pascha<Greek Páscha<Aramaic: Passover; compare Hebrew PesaḥPesach

Words Nearby Pasch

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How to use Pasch in a sentence

Then again, there are the Pasch or Easter eggs—boiled hard and dyed in various colours—which are so interesting to children.
Holidays & Happy-Days | Hamish Hendry
Ezechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the Pasch; the solemnity is kept fourteen days.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
Complete systems of axioms have been stated by M. Pasch, loc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 | Various
And it was the parasceve of the Pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
I might have scrambled you, or boiled you, or made a Pasch-egg of you, and you would not have known that anything was happening.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for Pasch

Pasch

/ (pɑːsk, pæsk) /

noun

an archaic name for Passover (def. 1), Easter

Origin of Pasch

C12: from Old French pasche, via Church Latin and Greek from Hebrew pesakh Pesach

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