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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, noun 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, preposition
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.
2. Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
Is it not past two o'clock? --Shak.
3. Above; exceeding; more than. [R.]
Not past three quarters of a mile. --Shak.
Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, adverb By; beyond; as, he ran past.
The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, adjective [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
past
adjective
1: earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" [ant: {present(a)}, {future}]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: a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"
noun
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}]
adverb: so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" [syn: {by}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "past": above, above and beyond, across, after, ago, ancient, antecedent, anterior, antiquated, antique, antiquity, aorist, aoristic, background, before, behind, beyond, biography, blown over, by, bygone, bygone days, bypast, career, chronology, close by, continuity, dated, days beyond recall, days gone by, days of old, days of yore, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, deceased, defunct, departed, disused, done, duration, durative, duree, early, elapsed, erstwhile, existence, expired, extinct, finished, fore, foregoing, foretime, forgotten, former, former times, future, future perfect, gone, gone glimmering, gone out, gone-by, has-been, heretofore, historical present, history, immemorial, imperfect, in excess of, irrecoverable, lang syne, lapsed, last, lastingness, late, later than, life, lifetime, nearby, no more, obsolete, old, old times, olden, olden times, on, once, onetime, out, out of style, out of use, outside, outworn, over, over and above, passe, passed, passed away, past perfect, perfect, perfective, period, pluperfect, point tense, precedent, prehistoric, present, present perfect, preterit, preteritive, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, progressive tense, psychological time, quondam, recent, run out, since, sometime, space, space-time, subsequent to, tense, term, the future, the past, the present, then, tide, time, timebinding, too deep for, vanished, while, whilom, without, wound up, yesterday, yesteryear, yore
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PAST, noun 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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