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adjective

Past adj. 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."

Past master. See under Master.

noun

Past n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. "The past, at least, is secure." "The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed."

preposition

Past prep.

Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." "Galled past endurance." "Until we be past thy borders." "Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame."

Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. "Is it not past two o'clock?"

Above; exceeding; more than. (R.) "Not past three quarters of a mile." "Bows not past three quarters of a yard long."

adverb

Past adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past. "The alarum of drums swept past."

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Etymology of 'Past'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Past" Quotes from Famous Books

... "It's long past getting up time," went on Uncle Tad. "If Bunny is going to be a soldier, and Sue a trained nurse they'll find they will have to get up much earlier ...

— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods • Laura Lee Hope

... despair, filled the homes of a people, whose hearts were bleeding, and whose hopes were crushed. All, all was gone. Only the cypress wreath was left, to remind of loved ones slain, and beggary, want, and famine to point with ghastly fingers to the past. The sweet sunshine fell lovingly again upon that worn section of the land, to find its fertile fields deserted, its homes destroyed, and its people cast down. Here and there, everywhere, far and wide, ...

— Leah Mordecai • Mrs. Belle Kendrick Abbott

... as objectionable productions. There is one kind called the Isabella, which we thought most disagreeable to eat, for the moment the skin is broken by the teeth and the grape squeezed the whole inner part pops out in a solid mass into the mouth. We are past the season of wild flowers; but these must make the country very beautiful in the early spring, to judge from the profusion of rhododendron and other shrubs, which were most luxuriant, especially where we crossed the Alleghanies ...

— First Impressions of the New World - On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 • Isabella Strange Trotter

... yourself against despair, particularly in the last hour, when the memory of past sins assails the conscience. Say with confidence: "Christ, the Son of God, was given not for the righteous, but for sinners. If I had no sin I should not need Christ. No, Satan, you cannot delude me into thinking I am holy. The ...

— Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians • Martin Luther

... in the Southwest, and Mary Ann Wicklow, who had a burning desire in her bosom to behold even the outside shell of her friend's new grandeur, undertook very disinterestedly to accompany them. Anthony's strict injunction held them due at a lamp-post outside Boyne's Bank, at half-past ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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