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splenalgia (medicine) and past(2) (iou)


splenalgia (medicine)


splenalgia
<medicine> Pain over the region of the spleen.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Spleen + pain.

Source: Websters Dictionary


past(2) (iou)



past preposition & adverb. [p¨»:st] ME.
[Obsolete pa. pple of PASS verb.]
A. preposition.
Beyond in time; beyond the age for or the time of; after; (in stating the time of day) so many minutes, or a quarter or half an hour, after a particular hour (specified or ellipt. understood). ME.
G. Greene The clock said five past ten. R. Rendell You should have been..at Home by eleven. But you didn't get in till quarter past. D. Abse It was past two o'clock. J. Wain A fine handsome woman, only a little past her first youth. B. Pym The bowl of hyacinths, now a little past their best.
b. Older than (a specified age). Also (arch.) postpositive. M16.
O. Sacks Ninety-threeand he doesn't look a day past seventy.
a. Beyond in place; at or on the further side of. ME.
E. Bowen She looked..past him into the study. P. Larkin For past these doors are rooms.
b. Of (actual or implicit) motion: by, so as to pass. M16.
D. Abse The sandbanks would swerve and curve past Jack Peterson's house. I. McEwan Caroline gathered up the tray and edged past him. G. Swift After leaving the churchyard, I take the minor road past Hyfield.
a. More than, above (in number or quantity). LME-M17.
b. Beyond in manner or degree. Now rare. E17.
Beyond the reach, range, or limits of. Also (arch.), without. LME.
C. Hare I'm past caring. G. W. Target This is getting past a joke.
b. Beyond the ability or power of. Chiefly in not put it past a person, think (a person) quite capable of doing a specified action or behaving in a specified way. colloq. E17.
b. adverb.
So as to pass or go by. E19.
W. C. Smith The tread of time as it hastens past. L. Bruce They just nip at your heels when you ride past on your bike.
On one side, aside. Scot. & N. Irish. M19.
R. L. Stevenson I'm prood to think ye're layin' past siller.
Phrases & comb.: march past: see MARCH noun3. not to put it past a person: see sense A.4b above. past it colloq. incompetent, incapable, or unusable by reason of age. past oneself (obsolete exc. dial.) beside oneself (with rage etc.). past-pointing Medicine an inability to point straight at an object or locate it accurately with the eyes closed, indicating malfunction in the cerebellum or in the labyrinth of the ear. past REDEMPTION. past redress: see REDRESS noun 2.