4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy
mortal passage." Milton.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage.
Shak.
5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes;
way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common
avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his
heart.
Dryden.
The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.
South.
6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous
series; as, the passage of time.
The conduct and passage of affairs.
Sir J. Davies.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
Shak.
7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an
incident; an act or deed. "In thy passages of life." Shak.
The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.
South.
8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous;
esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph;
a clause.
How commentators each dark passage shun.
Young.