pas tillage (pastilaj)

[F. pas tillage, imi tation in sugar-work, etc., pastille, n. and v. See pastil. pastil-paper (pas'til-paper), n. Paper coated an odoriferous composition burning, used in the same way as pastils. pastime (pas'tīm), n. [ pa , v ., + obj. time , in imitation of F. pa e temps , a pastime: see pastance.] Sport; amusement; diversion; that which amuses and serves to make time pa agreeably. I'll make a pastime of each weary step, Till the last step have brought me to my love. Shak., T. G. of V., ii. 7. 35. They all three would a walking go, The pastime for to see. Robin Hoods Delight (Child's Ballads, V. 212). Brave pastime , readers, to consume that day Which, without pastime , flies too swift away! Quarles, Emblems, i. 10. The General caused his dancing Women to enter the Dampier , Voyages, I. 342. Room, and divert the company with that pastime. =Syn. Pastime, Amusement, Recreation, Diversion, En tertainment, play. The italicized words keep near to their meaning by derivation. The central idea of a pastime is that it is so positively agreeable that it lets time slip by unnoticed: as, to turn work into pastime. Amusement has the double meaning of being kept from ennui and of finding occasion of mirth (see amuse ). Recreation is that sort of play or agreeable occupation which refreshes the tired person, making him as good as new. Diversion is a stronger word than recreation, representing that which turns one aside from ordinary serious work or thought, and amuses him greatly. Entertainment has come to have great breadth, ranging from amusement in its narrower sense to diversion and to the idea of a set exercise, as a concert, or to the articles of food furnished to guests; generally, however, entertainment stands for that which is social and refined.