past (subs.) Copy link • past (subs.): neut. of praetĕrĭtus: to grant any one an indemnity for the p., aliquem venia in praeteritum donare, Suet. Dom. 9. Esp. n. pl. (the past, collectively; with all its events): to remember the p., to see the present, meminisse praeteritorum, praesentia cernere, Cic. Div. 1, 30, 63: Caes. Phr.: admirer of the p., laudati temporis acti [se puero], Hor. A. P. 173 (strictly, without sense apart from the words in brackets.).