passim

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  1. 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.

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  • Sharman seems to be clueless about past lessons learned, so let's step back in time and revisit ghost of NZ's RWC-passim: —  MVN
  • The capture of Oechalia is also mentioned at Her IX passim (the poem perhaps not by Ovid) and Met IX 136-40 62. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • "[43 Footnote 43: Glossary, p. 579--passim Mrs. Eddy does not hesitate to make such textual modifications of passages as suit her purpose and even when she is not dealing with her texts in such ways as these, she is constantly citing for her proofs passages which cannot by any recognized canon of interpretation possibly be made to mean what she says they mean. —  Modern Religious Cults and Movements
  • "[69 Footnote 69: "The Ancient Wisdom," p. 202--passim To condense, he now proceeds to build up for himself a new body for his coming life on the lower mental level. —  Modern Religious Cults and Movements
  • So it is now in England See Bell's Life, passim, as 'The Chicken got home on the cocoanut The Explanation On the whole, either cocoanut kernels were called 'brains of Tuna' because 'cocoanut'='head,' and a head has brains--and, well, somehow I fail to see why brains of Tuna in particular! —  Modern Mythology
 

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  1. Latin, from passus, past participle of pandere, to scatter, spread out; see petə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. L.,hither and thither, everywhere, from passus, pp of pandere, extend: see pass.
 

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