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   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.
   
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   Past master. See under Master.
   
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   Past, n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. “The past, at least, is secure.”  D. Webster.
   
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   The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. Trench.
   
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   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.
   
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   Until we be past thy borders. Num. xxi. 22.
   
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   Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. L'Estrange.
   
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   2. Beyond, in time; after; as, “past the hour”.
   
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   Is it not past two o'clock? Shak.
   
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   3. Above; exceeding; more than. [R.]
   
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   Not past three quarters of a mile. Shak.
   
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   Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. Spenser.
   
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   Past (pȧst), adv. By; beyond; as, “he ran past”.
   
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   The alarum of drums swept past. Longfellow.
   
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