May have been a verb form ofpass, once. See Vicars,Virgil: "Great Tuscane dames, as she their townspast by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately."Equinox◑01:13, 20 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

Yes, it's an old spelling of what we now spellpassed. But did it occur as such in modern English? —CodeCat01:17, 20 September 2014 (UTC)Reply

I suspect it's used so at least in the phrasepast master. --Droigheann (talk)12:16, 7 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

 DoneEquinox◑16:23, 4 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

since we already havepast perfect etc... --Backinstadiums (talk)16:08, 4 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

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past

"Adverb"Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

1. Ignore them, we'll playpast them.

   Please don't drivepast the fruit stand, I want to stop there.

This seems to me to be a preposition sense, possibly identical to one already under that L2.DCDuringTALK11:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

@DCDuring, I agree. It should be moved to the Preposition header. —Eru·tuon15:29, 19 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

what's its meaning inlet past? --Backinstadiums (talk)20:49, 5 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Backinstadiums:: "allow". The "let past" entry already says "allow" in the definition. Did you read it?Equinox◑20:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Equinox:past doesn't meanallow because there's no verbto past but its eymology islet someone (get) past --Backinstadiums (talk)21:45, 5 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

It's like "let me in!", "let me out!", "let them free".Equinox◑03:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+times+past --Backinstadiums (talk)16:20, 28 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

A meeting in Brusselsthis past weekend Similarly tothis coming--Backinstadiums (talk)20:37, 3 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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