Passim Definition

păsĭm
adverb
Throughout or frequently; here and there. Used in textual annotation to indicate that something, such as a word or passage, occurs frequently in the work cited.
American Heritage
Here and there; in various parts (of a book, etc.)
Webster's New World

Throughout or frequently.

Wiktionary
Here and there.
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Origin of Passim

  • Latin from passus past participle of pandere to scatter, spread out petə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the Latin passim (“here and there, everywhere").

    From Wiktionary

Passim Sentence Examples

  • See Holliday's Life (1797); Campbell's Chief Justices; Foss's Judges; Greville's Memoirs, passim; Horace Walpole's Letters; and other memoirs and works on the period.

  • Flournoy, Des Indes a la Planete Mars (Geneva, 1900; there is an English translation published in London); Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, passim.

  • Xc-reev, tunica), like its Greek counterpart, was apparently of two kinds, for, although essentially a simple and probably sleeveless garment, there was a special variety worn by royal maidens and men of distinction, explicitly described as a tunic of palms or soles (passim), that is, one presumably reaching to the hands and feet (Gen.

  • On the whole subject in its older aspects, see Ludolf's Historia Aethiopica and its Commentary, passim.

  • Larmor, Aether and Matter, p. 262 and passim.

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