(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion. / (obsolete) To express with great emotion.

The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach, commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus, during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed.

Alternative letter-case form of passion flower

The fifth Sunday in Lent, the second Sunday before Easter, the first day in Passiontide.

A plant, passiflora, that produces an edible fruit. / The edible fruit of the passionflower, Passiflora edulis; a round fruit with a purple or yellow skin which is native to Brazil.

Short for Passage West, Ireland.

(Christianity) The sufferings of Jesus Christ from the night of the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.

(anthropology) A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a transition in a person’s life. Baptisms, bar mitzvahs, weddings and funerals are among the best known examples.

(music) A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass.

(of a capture in chess) Performed by a pawn on an enemy pawn that has just passed over its attack zone.