have the pas of someone

Verb

 * 1)  To have precedence over someone.
 * 2) * 1758, 18 August, correspondence from Marlborough to William Pitt
 * You may remember that major-generals Kilmanseg and Oberg were made lieutenant-generals, with their commissions ante-dated, lest they should be commanded by an Englishman, whom they had formerly had the pas of