PAST Copy link • PAST 1. adverb, praeteritus; exactus; finitus: also, prior, superior: the past year, summer, annus superior, aetas prior: the past cannot be altered, praeterita mutari non possunt, or mutare non possumus (after Cic.): past time, tempus praeteritum (Cic.); tempus actum (Hor., A. P.). ☞ Avoid the use of elapsus and praeterlapsus of p. time absolutely; Vid: Wolf., Anal., 1, p. 488. 2. preposition and adverb = more than, above. Vid: BEYOND.