Hypertext Webster Gateway: "past"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Past \Past\, adv.
By; beyond; as, he ran past.
The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Past \Past\, a. [From {Pass}, v.]
Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present
nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past
troubles; past offences. ``Past ages.'' --Milton.
{Past master}. See under {Master}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Past \Past\, n.
A former time or state; a state of things gone by. ``The
past, at least, is secure.'' --D. Webster.
The present is only intelligible in the light of the
past, often a very remote past indeed. --Trench.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Past \Past\, prep.
1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the
reach or influence of. ``Who being past feeling.'' --Eph.
iv. 19. ``Galled past endurance.'' --Macaulay.
Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi.
22.
Love, when once past government, is consequently
past shame. --L'Estrange.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
past
adj 1: earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time
past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the
past year" [ant: {present(a)}, {future}]
2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or
office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: {past(a)},
{preceding(a)}, {retiring(a)}]
3: (grammar) a verb tense or other construction referring to
events or states that existed at some previous time; "past
participle"
n 1: the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: {past
times}, {yesteryear}, {yore}] [ant: {future}]
2: a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they
have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the
candidate's past"
3: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
[syn: {past tense}]
adv : so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past"
[syn: {by}]
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