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Word Meanings - BEYOND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or

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1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength. 4. In a degree or amount exceeding or surpassing; proceeding to a greater degree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter. 1 Thess. iv. 6.

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  • EXCEEDING
    More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
  • AFOREHAND
    Beforehand; in anticipation. She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.
  • SUCCEEDANT
    Succeeding one another; following.
  • DISTANT
    stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
  • PRECEDENTLY
    Beforehand; antecedently.
  • SUCCEEDER
    A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
  • BEFORETIME
    Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
  • ANTECEDENT
    1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
  • BEYOND
    1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
  • DISTANTIAL
    Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
  • FOREGO
    1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach,
  • ABOVEBOARD
    Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
  • PRECEDENTED
    Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
  • AFORE
    In the fore part of a vessel. (more info) 1. Before. If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.
  • ABOVESAID
    Mentioned or recited before.
  • ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
    Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
  • EXCEEDABLE
    Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood.
  • AHEAD
    1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of.
  • FOREGOER
    1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor. 2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
  • SUCCEEDING
    The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.
  • THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
    Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
  • POSTREMOTE
    More remote in subsequent time or order.
  • EQUIDISTANT
    Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
  • PREREMOTE
    More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
  • TERREMOTE
    An earthquake. Gower.

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