Pasch

[ pask ]

noun

1. the Jewish festival of Passover.
2. Easter.

Pasch

/ pɑːsk; pæsk /

noun

1. See Passover, Easter
   an archaic name for Passover Easter

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pasch¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pasch¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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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