dead hand dead hand of the past mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
fallacy false belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning |
error erroneous belief | a misconception resulting from incorrect information |
impression feeling belief notion opinion | a vague idea in which some confidence is placed, his impression of her was favorable, what are your feelings about the crisis?, it strengthened my belief in his sincerity, I had a feeling that she was lying |
belief | any cognitive content held as true |
conviction strong belief article of faith | an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence |
religion faith religious belief | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny, he lost his faith but not his morality |
past past tense | a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past |
past participle perfect participle | a participle that expresses completed action |
past master | someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity |
past master | someone who was formerly a master |
past perfect past perfect tense pluperfect pluperfect tense | a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past, `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect |
past progressive past progressive tense | a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past, `I had been running' is an example of the past progressive |
delusion psychotic belief | (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary |
past past times yesteryear | the time that has elapsed, forget the past |
past | a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret), reporters dug into the candidate's past |
travel by pass by surpass go past go by pass | move past, A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window, He passed his professor in the hall, One line of soldiers surpassed the other |
exceed transcend overstep pass go past top a | be superior or better than some standard, She exceeded our expectations, She topped her performance of last year |
past(a) preceding(a) retiring(a) | of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office, a retiring member of the board |
past | earlier than the present time, no longer current, time past, his youth is past, this past Thursday, the past year |
by past | so as to pass a given point, every hour a train goes past |