Dryden.
(d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art.
Spenser.
Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most
desolate hour.
Byron.
(e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.;
to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed
his examination; the bill passed the senate.
2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to
transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit;
to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and
cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.