To pass off Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off.
  2. to impose fraudulently; to palm off. "Passed himself off as a bishop." Macaulay.
Definitions
  1. to impose fraudulently; to palm off. "Passed himself off as a bishop." Macaulay.

Webster 1913