pass off
pass off:
I. To depart:
1. ăbeo, 4, irr.: has your sea-sickness quite p.'d off yet? nausea jamne plane abiit? Cic. Att. 14, 10, med.
2. dēcēdo, ssi, ssum, 3: the ague has p.'d off, quartana decessit, ib. 7, 2, ad init.
II. Trans.: in phr. to p. oneself off for ...:
1. fĕro, 3, irr. (with pron. refl.): he tried to p. himself for Philip, se Philippum ferebat, Vell. 1, 11: Suet.
2. expr. by impōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3: cf. Quint. 8, 6, 20, populo imposuimus et oratores visi sumus.
I. To depart:
1. ăbeo, 4, irr.: has your sea-sickness quite p.'d off yet? nausea jamne plane abiit? Cic. Att. 14, 10, med.
2. dēcēdo, ssi, ssum, 3: the ague has p.'d off, quartana decessit, ib. 7, 2, ad init.
II. Trans.: in phr. to p. oneself off for ...:
1. fĕro, 3, irr. (with pron. refl.): he tried to p. himself for Philip, se Philippum ferebat, Vell. 1, 11: Suet.
2. expr. by impōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3: cf. Quint. 8, 6, 20, populo imposuimus et oratores visi sumus.