bypast

[ bahy-past, -pahst ]

adjective

1. bygone; earlier; former; past.

verb

1. a past participle of bypass.
2. Rare. a simple past tense of bypass.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bypast¹

1375–1425; late Middle English (adj.); by (adv.), past

Example Sentences

The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe.

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It's no mony months bypast; it was a lang courtship,—few folk kend the reason by Jenny and mysell.

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I have been this time bypast thinking much of the incoming of the kirk of the Jews.

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As for the King, he has been hampered for about a month bypast on account of the continual rain.

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The Flocks of all Friars within this realm, we wish restitution of wrongs bypast, and reformation in time coming, for salutation.

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Related Words

• earlier
• early
• late
• old
• preceding
• previous
• prior
• recent