The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beyond \Be*yond"\, prep. [OE. biyonde, bi[yogh]eonde, AS. begeondan, prep. and adv.; pref. be- + geond yond, yonder. See Yon, Yonder.]
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On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
Beyond that flaming hill.
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At a place or time not yet reached; before.
A thing beyond us, even before our death.
--Pope. Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one's strength.
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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.
Usage examples of "beyond sea".
But next spring, when they all met off the fishing-banks of the Pacific, Kotick's seals told such tales of the new beaches beyond Sea Cow's tunnel that more and more seals left Novastoshnah.
Culpepper states that our native Gentians 'have been proved by the experience of divers physicians not to be a whit inferior in virtue to that which comes from beyond sea.