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Passion :: Passion (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.

Capacity :: Capacity (n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

Irresistance :: Irresistance (n.) Nonresistance; passive submission.

Acquiescence :: Acquiescence (n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction..

Use :: Use (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger..

Passive :: Passive (a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive..

Glassite :: Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding. The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass..

Stolidity :: Stolid (a.) Hopelessly insensible or stupid; not easily aroused or excited; dull; impassive; foolish.

Deponent :: Deponent (a.) Having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and Greek verbs..

Aggrieve :: Aggrieve (v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved..

Passively :: Passively (adv.) In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

Passiveness :: Passiveness (n.) The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Impassive :: Impassive (a.) Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.

Resistance :: Resistance (n.) The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active..

Pathic :: Pathic (a.) Passive; suffering.

To :: To (prep.) In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty

Passively :: Passively (adv.) As a passive verb; in the passive voice.

Give :: Give (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given..

#NAME? :: -ee () A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer..

Fortitude :: Fortitude (n.) That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble..

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