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Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

The past or preterit tense of Arise.

ong the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, a…

omise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

per of large size. See under Paper, n. Atlas powder, a nitroglycerin blasting compound of pasty consistency and great explosive power.

ting the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.

A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

Already past or gone; bygone. [R.] And flies unconscious o'er each backward year. Byron.

Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. Locke.

A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.] A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. Fairfax.

Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. [His mother] in travail of his bearing. R. of Gloucester.

The past participle of Be. In old authors it is also the pr. tense plural of Be. See 1st Bee. Assembled been a senate grave and stout. Fairfax.

In time past; previously; already. You tell me, mother, what I knew before. Dryden.