Addison.
Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.
Clarendon.
(b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to
promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. Shak.
Father, thy word is passed.
Milton.
(c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success
through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal
or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and
just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed
the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass
counterfeit money. "Pass the happy news." Tennyson. (f) To cause to
obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a
theater, or over a railroad.