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Definitions for: Beyond
[adv] in addition; "agreed to provide essentials but nothing beyond"
[adv] farther along in space or time or degree; "through the valley and beyond"; "to the eighth grade but not beyond"; "will be influential in the 1990s and beyond"
[adv] on the farther side from the observer; "a pond with a hayfield beyond"
Webster (1913) Definition: Be*yond", prep. [OE. biyonde, bi[yogh]eonde, AS.
begeondan, prep. and adv.; pref. be- + geond yond, yonder.
See Yon, Yonder.]
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. (Law) 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.
Be*yond", adv.
Further away; at a distance; yonder.
Lo, where beyond he lyeth languishing. --Spenser.
Synonyms: on the far side
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