past history

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• past — /past / (say pahst) verb 1. Rare past participle and occasional past tense of pass. –adjective 2. gone by in time. 3. belonging to, or having existed or occurred in time previous to this. 4. gone by just before the present time; just passed: the… …  

• History of Chile — This article is part of a series Early History …   Wikipedia

• History of Toleration —     History of Toleration     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► History of Toleration     In any attempt to deal historically with the attitude of the Church towards religious toleration two considerations have throughout to be kept in mind. In the first …   Catholic encyclopedia

• past — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Gone by in time Nouns 1. past, past tense, pretention; the past, yesterday; days of yore or of old; times past or gone by; bygone days; olden times, the good old days, yesteryear, time immemorial; auld… …   English dictionary for students

• History of paleontology — The history of paleontology traces the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Paleontology is a field of biology, but its development has been closely tied to geology and… …   Wikipedia

• history */*/*/ — UK [ˈhɪst(ə)rɪ] / US noun Word forms history : singular history plural histories Collocations: A history is a book, film, television programme etc about real events that happened in the past of a particular place, activity, or group of people: He …   English dictionary

• history — noun 1 the past, esp. as a subject of study ADJECTIVE ▪ contemporary, early, recent ▪ the early history of the trade union movement ▪ things that happened in recent history ▪ ancie …   Collocations dictionary

• history — Synonyms and related words: Clio, Muse of history, account, adventures, ancient history, annals, antiquity, autobiography, background, biographical sketch, biography, bygone days, bygone times, case history, catalog, chronicle, chronicles,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• history — his|to|ry [ hıst(ə)ri ] noun *** 1. ) uncount the whole of time before the present, and all things that happened in that time: in recorded history: These temperatures are the highest in recorded history. throughout history: Attitudes toward… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• History of the Eastern Orthodox Church — The Eastern Orthodox Churches trace their roots back to the Apostles and Jesus Christ. Eastern Orthodoxy reached its golden age during the high point of the Byzantine Empire, and then continued to flourish in Russia after the Fall of… …   Wikipedia

• past —  Often a space waster, as in this example: Davis said the dry conditions had been a recurrent problem for the past thirty years. In this sentence, and in countless others like it, the past could be deleted without any loss of sense. Equally… …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors