PASSING BELL

Definition: PASSING BELL

PASSING BELL

1. A tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonies. --Sir W. Scott. --Longfellow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: PASSING BELL

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To hear a passing bell, unexpected intelligence of the sorrow or illness of the absent. To ring one yourself, denotes ill health and reverses. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Passing Bell (The). It now means the bell tolled to announce the death of one who has died in the parish; but originally it meant the bell which announced that the person was in extremis, or passing from time into eternity. "When a person lies in agony, the bells of the parish he belongs to are touched with the clappers until either he dies or recovers again. As soon as this sign is given, everybody in the street, as well as in the houses, falls on his knees, offering prayer for the sick person." (See lxvii. of the Canon Law.)- Diary of the Duke of Stettin's Journey. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: PASSING BELL

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge. (lamentation); cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: PASSING BELL

Language		Translations for "PASSING BELL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tingëllim funeral. (various references)

Bulgarian		камбанен звън за смърт. (various references)

Czech		umíráèek (knell). (various references)

Finnish		sielukellot. (various references)

Hungarian		lélekharang (death bell, knell, knoll, last post, passing-bell). (various references)

Manx		clag ny merriu (death bell, funeral bell), clag baaish (death bell, death knell). (various references)

Pig Latin		assingpay ellbay

Romanian		preveste rea, rãu augur, dangãt funebru, dangãt de înmormântare. (various references)

Russian		похоронный звон (death bell, death-bell, knell, passing-bell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		posmrtno zvono. (various references)

Spanish		toque de difuntos (knell). (various references)

Swedish		själaringning (death bell, knell). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: PASSING BELL

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	Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-l-l-n-p-s-s"
	-2 letters: salpinges, spellings, spillages.
	-3 letters: ainsells, biplanes, blessing, elapsing, gainless, galleins, glassine, glibness, labeling, lapsible, leasings, lesbians, painless, passible, pillages, pinballs, planless, pleasing, saplings, sensilla, singable, spaeings, spalling, spangles, spaniels, spelling, spillage, spinages, splenial.
	-4 letters: ablings, abseils, ainsell, alpines, ballies, balling, bangles, begalls, belling, bigness, biplane, espials, gallein, gallies, glassie, illness, lapises, lapsing, leaping.
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PASSING BELL

Definition: PASSING BELL

PASSING BELL

Specialty Definition: PASSING BELL

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Synonyms within Context: PASSING BELL

Interment

Crosswords: PASSING BELL

Modern Translation: PASSING BELL

Albanian

Bulgarian

Czech

Finnish

Hungarian

Manx

Pig Latin

Romanian

Russian

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Anagrams: PASSING BELL

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