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To cause to be no longer pastor; to deprive of pastorship. [R.] Fuller.

A caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; -- called also Vienna caustic.

Any field of arable or pasture land. [Obs.]

per share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12.

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days. Witness those ancient empires of the earth. Milton. Gildas Albanius . . . m…

A minister or pastor of a church, as in the Seven Asiatic churches. [Archaic] Unto-the angel of the church of Ephesus write. Rev. ii. 1.

Previous view or impression of what is to happen; instinctive prevision; foretaste; antepast; as, the anticipation of the joys of heaven. The happy anticipation of renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. Thodey.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

ses as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon…