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 &c 505.
laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite;
antiquary, antiquarian; archmologist &c; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.
ancestry &c (paternity) 166.
V. be past &c adj.; have expired &c 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.
Adj. 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 &c (old)
124.
former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant [Fr.], late; ancestral.
foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect†,
preterpluperfect†.
looking back &c v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological &c
n..
Adv. paleo-; archaeo-; formerly; of old, of yore; erst [G.], whilom,
erewhile†, time was, ago, over; in the olden time &c 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 &c
(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.
Phr. 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].