have the pas of someone
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[edit]Verb
[edit]have the pas of someone (third-person singular simple present has the pas of someone, present participle having the pas of someone, simple past and past participle had the pas of someone)
- (obsolete) To have precedence over someone.
- 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 […]
- 1968, Edward Eggleston, The Faith Doctor, page 37:
- 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.
- 1758, 18 August, correspondence from Marlborough to William Pitt