passtime

See also: pass-time, and pastime

English

Etymology

From Middle English passe tyme, calque of Middle French passe-temps.

Noun

passtime (plural passtimes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pastime.
   • 1818, John Whale, John Blades, quoting Keats, John, “Letter to George Keats”, in John Keats, Macmillan International Higher Education, published 2004, →ISBN, page 26:

     You will by this time think I am in love with her; so before I go any further I will tell you I am not — she kept me awake one Night as a tune of Mozart's might do — I speak of the thing as a passtime and an amuzement than which I can feel none deeper than a conversation with an imperial woman the very ‘yes’ and ‘no’ of whose Lips is to me a Banquet.

   • 1876 July, S. D. McLean, “Sketches from Tennessee—Bee Culture”, in Moon's Bee World, volume 3, number 8, latter dated May 30, '76, page 237:

     Some engage in bee culture for the pleasure it affords them as a passtime; others as a means of furnishing their own tables with one of natures richest luxuries, while others engage in it as an occupation for the dollars and cents that may realize from it.

Anagrams

• et passim, timepass, sitemaps, site maps, mispaste, pastimes, impastes