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gone-by, ppl. a. and n. [f. gone pa. pple. of go v. + by- 2 d.] A. ppl. adj. = bygone ppl. a. in various senses.
1827W. G. S. Excurs. Village Curate 70 Something like an old gone-by companion. 1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. xiv. (1839) 124 Gone-by relics of the dark ages. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers IV. xii. 241 The belief, and..ritual, of gone-by ages. B. n. = bygone n.
1859W. Chadwick Life De Foe vii. 342 You cannot let gone-byes be gone-byes quietly. |