Meaning of have the pas of someone | Babel Free

Definitions

To have precedence over someone.

obsolete

Examples

“1758, 18 August, correspondence from Marlborough to William Pitt You may remember that […] major-generals Kilmanseg and Oberg were made lieutenant-generals, with their commissions ante-dated, lest they should be commanded by an Englishman, whom they had formerly had the pas of […]”

“But once the newcomer has settled her relative social standing and knows which of her fellows are to have the pas of her at the hayrick and the watering-place, and which she in turn may safely bully, all is peace in the pasture.”

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