the past

Roget category 122

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#122. [Retrospective time.] The Past

noun

the past, past time — days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by — bygone days — old times, ancient times, former times — fore time — the good old days, the olden time, good old time — auld lang syne^† — eld^†.
antiquity, antiqueness^†, status quo — time immemorial — distance of time — remote age, remote time — remote past — rust of antiquity.
[study of the past] paleontology, paleography, paleology^† — paleozoology — palaetiology^†, archaeology — paleogeography — paleoecology — paleobotany — paleoclimatoogy — archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism — paleography.
retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory etc. 505.
laudator temporis acti [Lat.] — medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite — antiquary, antiquarian — archmologist &c. — Oldbuck, Dryasdust.
ancestry etc. (paternity) 166.

verb

be past etc. adj. — have expired etc. adj., have run its course, have had its day — pass — pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off — lapse, blow over.
look back, trace back, cast the eyes back — exhume.

adjective

past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone — elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed^†, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable — obsolete etc. (old) 124.
former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant [Fr.], late — ancestral.
foregoing — last, latter — recent, over night — preterperfect^†, preterpluperfect^†.
looking back etc. v. — retrospective, retroactive — archaeological etc. n..

adverb

paleo- — archaeo- — formerly — of old, of yore — erst [G.], whilom, erewhile^†, time was, ago, over — in the olden time etc. n. — anciently, long ago, long since — a long while, a long time ago — years ago, yesteryear, ages ago — some time ago, some time since, some time back.
yesterday, the day before yesterday — last year, ultimo — lately etc. (newly) 123.
retrospectively — ere now, before now, till now — hitherto, heretofore — no longer — once, once upon a time — from time immemorial, from prehistoric times — in the memory of man — time out of mind — already, yet, up to this time — ex post facto.

phrase

time was — the time has been, the time hath been — you can't go home again — fuimus Troes [Lat.] [Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Lat.] [Vergil]; hoc erat in more majorum [Lat.] — O call back yesterday, bid time return" [Richard II]; tempi passati [It] — the eternal landscape of the past" [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum [Lat.] — what's past is prologue" [Tempest]; whose yesterdays look backward with a smile" [Young]. 2. Time with reference to a particular period

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