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6 definitions found 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: past adj 1: earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" [ant: {present(a)}, {future}] 2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position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}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one -- the knowledge and the dream.
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