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Pasch

[ pask ]

noun

  1. the Jewish festival of Passover.


Pasch

/ pɑːsk; pæsk /

noun

  1. an archaic name for Passover Easter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Pasch1

before 1150; Middle English, Old English < Late Latin Pascha < Greek Páscha < Aramaic: Passover; compare Hebrew Pesaḥ Pesach
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Pasch1

C12: from Old French pasche, via Church Latin and Greek from Hebrew pesakh Pesach
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Example Sentences

Then again, there are the Pasch or Easter eggs—boiled hard and dyed in various colours—which are so interesting to children.

Ezechias inviteth all Israel to celebrate the pasch; the solemnity is kept fourteen days.

Complete systems of axioms have been stated by M. Pasch, loc.

And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour: and he saith to the Jews: Behold your king.

I might have scrambled you, or boiled you, or made a pasch-egg of you, and you would not have known that anything was happening.

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