passus
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passus,
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passuses
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of passus
1565–75; < Medieval Latin, Latin: step. See pace 1
Example Sentences
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Besides, the different "passus" do not seem to me to show signs of having been caused by such mechanical reasons as the dimensions of the parchment upon which they were written.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
We do not hear the still small voice of pathos and of human hope which thrills through Thomas a Celano's hymn:— Quaerens me sedisti lassus, Redemisti crucem passus: Tantus labor non sit cassus.
From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds
Willis, from whom the above dimensions are quoted, does not attempt to reconcile the figures except in so far as he suggests pedes for passus, substituting one foot for five.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant
And when he came to the gate, as, Leo witnesseth, which is called Sancta Maria ad passus, he met Jesu Christ coming against him, and Peter said to him: Lord, whither goest thou?
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
With patior and sinō, permit, allow; as,— nūllō sē implicārī negōtiō passus est, he did not permit himself to be involved in any difficulty.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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