PAST COMPLAINING, phr. (old).—See quot.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. The man is PAST COMPLAINING, saying of a person murdered for resisting the robbers.

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  TO BE PAST DYING OF A FIRST CHILD, verb. phr. (old).—To have had a bastard. RAY (1767).

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  [COLLOQUIALISMS are: PAST BELIEVING = incredible; PAST PRAYING FOR = hopeless; PAST-MASTER (or -MISTRESS) = an adept; PAST WHOOPING = undeniable, beyond question; PAST-PRICE = invaluable. See also MARK OF MOUTH.]

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  1602.  J. DAVIES, Mirum in Modum [GROSART, Works, i. 6].

                The Soule is such a precious thing
As costs the price of PAST-PRICE deerest bloud.

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