passing (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. praetĕriens (with just a glance, such as one passing by might bestow), in agreement with subject2. ŏbĭter (not in Cic.)3. in transcursu • passing (subs.): chiefly in adv. phr., in passing: 1. praetĕriens (with just a glance, such as one passing by might bestow), in agreement with subject: Cic. Br. 54, 200: with quasi: I will, as it were in p., do justice to them all at once, quasi praeteriens satisfaciam universis, id. Div. Verr. 15, extr. 2. ŏbĭter (not in Cic.): to expose, in p., the folly of Magic, ob. vanitatem Magicam coarguere, Plin. 37, 9, 37: Sen. 3. in transcursu: Join: breviter atque in transcursu, Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 39.