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

But for these dozen or twenty years bypast we have preferred a narrow beat, snugly seated on a shelty, and pad the hoof on the hill no more.

From Project Gutenberg

By it all Acts bypast, and especially those of the five Jameses, not agreeing with God's Word and contrary to the Confession, and 'wherethrow divers innocents did suffer,' were abolished and extinguished for ever.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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