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bypast, by-past, ppl. a.|ˈbaɪˌpɑːst, -æ-|
Also 6 bi-, bepast, byepassed, 7 biepast (all Sc.); 9 bypassed.
[f. by- 2 d + past. In earlier use often following the n.; cf. bygone A 1.]
1. That has passed or gone by, (of time) elapsed; that has happened or existed in past time; former.
1452Earl Douglas in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 387 Before the xxii day of the moneth of July last bypast. 1535Coverdale Job xxix. 2 O yt I were as I was in the monethes bypast. 1609Act agst. Libels, &c. in Maidment Sc. Pasquils 422 Ancient grudges borne in tyme of biepast troubles. 1705Sir E. Walker Hist. Disc. v. 364 They had promised..to clear His by-past Actions. 1804Knox & Jebb Corr. I. 142 The ecclesiastical history of Britain, during the by-past century. 1852D. Moir Angler iii, The twilight labyrinth Of bypast things.
†b. That has passed out of life; deceased, departed. Obs.
1425in Entick London (1766) IV. 354 Shal pray..for al the now being alive, and also for the by-past, to God. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 74 To be revengit of the skaith Is done to ws, and oure eldaris bipast.
†c. Overdue, in arrear; cf. bygone n. Obs.
1693Apol. Clergy Scot. 21 Had not the Clergy as good right to their by-past Stipends? |