Time (?), n.; pl. Times (#). [OE. time, AS. tma, akin to td time, and
to Icel. tmi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. √58. See Tide, n.] 1.
Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any
employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day.
Chaucer.
I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted
simple and original than those of space and time.
Reid.
2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or
future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been;
the time is, or will be.
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets.
Heb. i. 1.
3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived;
age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of
Queen Elizabeth; — often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern
times.
4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at
his disposal.
Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion,
to mankind.
Buckminster.