PAS'SY-MEASURE, noun An old stately kind of dance; a cinque-pace.
P'AST, participle passive of pass. Gone by or beyond; not present; not future.
1. Spent; ended; accomplished.
P'AST, noun Elliptically, past time; as indemnity for the past.
P'AST, preposition Beyond in time. Hebrews 11:1.
1. Having lost; not possessing; as, he was past sense of feeling.
2. Beyond; out of reach of; as, he was past cure or help.
Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame.
3. Beyond; further than; as past the boundary.
4. Above; more than.
The northern Irish Scots have bows not past three quarters of a yard long. [Not now used.]
5. After; beyond in time. The company assembled at half past seven, that is, at half an hour after seven.