Word Meanings - REGRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Passing back; returning. 2. Characterized by retrogression; retrogressive. Regressive metamorphism. See Retrogression. See Katabolism.

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• PASS
  passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
• PASSOVER
  A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
• PASSUS
  A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
• PASSIBILITY
  The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• PASSENGER MILE
  A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
• PASSIFLORA
  A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
• REGRESSIVELY
  In a regressive manner.
• PASSEGARDE
  A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
• RETROGRESSION
  Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also
• PASSERINE
  Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.
• PASSIBLE
  Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents. Apolinarius, which held even deity itself passible. Hooker.
• PASSAGEWAY
  A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• PASSER-BY
  One who goes by; a passer.
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• PASSABLY
  Tolerably; moderately.
• PASSACAGLIA; PASSACAGLIO
  An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne. (more info) tune on the guitar, prop., a tune played in passing through the
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• REPASS
  To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• IMPASSABLE
  Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• UNPASSABLE
  Impassable. E. A. Freeman. -- Un*pass"a*ble*ness, n. Evelyn.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.