Verb
pass as (third-person singular simple present passes as, present participle passing as, simple past and past participle passed as)
To be able to convince others that one is something contrary to fact; to look sufficiently like something or someone that one can purport to be it.
Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept. Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death. John Keats
For an author Jerry Vail was rather nice-looking, most authors, as is widely known, resembling in appearance the more degraded types of fish, unless they look like birds, when they could pass as vultures and no questions asked. P. G. Wodehouse
Lucky Australians! They can go on sleeping for another seven hours and stil pass as early risers. Caryl Brahms
True instruction is this: -to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. Epictetus
Hindus have a saying that even a castor plant can pass as a tree in a land devoid of real trees. Jesus can pass as God only among people who have never known what constitutes Godhood. Sita Ram Goel