pacta

paction (pak's hon), n. [OF. paction = OSp. paccion, They made a paction 'tween them twa. Get up and Bar the Door (Child's Ballads, VIII. 126). The paction evangelical, in which we undertake to be disciples to the holy Jesus. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 349. pactional (pak's hon-al), a . [ paction + -al . ] Of the nature of a pact. Bp . Sanders on , Cases of Conscience, p. 126. pact it i oust (pak-tish'us), a . [ pact it i us , pacticius , stipulated, pact us , pp. of pacisci , or slang.] I obtained three children, two girls and a boy, between the ages of five and ten years, of their parents, at a common "padding-ken" in Blakeley Street (now Charter Street) for three shillings, to stand pad with me from seven o'clock until twelve p. m. on a Saturday. Letter from G. A. Brine (1875), quoted in Ribton-Turner's [Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 642. pad1 (pad), v.; pret. and pp. padded, ppr. pad ding. [ Something most like a lion, and it came a great padding pace after. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , ii. The muzzled ox that treadeth out the corn, Gone blind in padding round and round one path. Browning , Ring and Book, IL. 277. II. trans. 1. To travel on foot over or along; proceed on foot through; journey slowly, steadily, or wearily along. [Obsolete or slang.] Though the weather be foul and storms grow apace, yet go not ye alone, but other your brothers and sisters pad the same path. J. Bradford , Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 46. 2. To tread or beat down; make smooth and level by treading: as, to pad a path. - To pad the hoof, to go on foot; "foot it." [Slang.]