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Webster 1913 Edition
Passim
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Pas′sim
,adv.
[L.]
Here and there; everywhere;
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passim
passim
English
Adverb
passim (not comparable)
- throughout or frequently
- here and there
Quotations
- 1751 — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
- The sceptics assert [Sext. Emp. adrersus Math. lib. viii.], though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects, as the sun and moon, to the support and well-being of mankind. This is also the common reason assigned by historians, for the deification of eminent heroes and legislators [Diod. Sic. passim.].
- 1978 — Supreme Court of the United States, F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation
- See also Hearings on H.R.8825 before the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., passim (1928).
Usage notes
- used especially with the name of a book or writer to indicate that something (as a word, phrase, or idea) is to be found at many places in the same book or writer's work
Translations
throughout; frequently
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here and there
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From passus (“spread out”), from pandō (“I spread”).
Adverb
passim (not comparable)
- everywhere (almost synonymous to ubique)
- here and there, hither and thither; (at or to different places)
Descendants
- English: passim
References
- passim in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- passim in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- PASSIM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “passim”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
- far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)