Verb (used with object) : He bypassed the foreman and took his grievance straight to the owner. From Dictionary.com.
The Flocks of all Friars within this realm, we wish restitution of wrongs bypast, and reformation in time coming, for salutation. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
In art, the astronomer has originated and perfected the many powerful and beautiful instruments now required for taking observations, and these, when compared with the instruments in use in bypast times, are excellent evidences of modern progress in this direction. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects] Reference
Glenartney, committed upon ye day of last bypast, be certain of ye said clan, be ye council and determination of ye haill, avow and to defend ye authors yrof qoever wald persew for revenge of ye same, qll ye said Jo. was occupied in seeking of venison to his Hieness, at command of Pat. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852] Reference
Kingston, where I rallied under my aunt's hospitable roof, as rapidly almost as I had sickened, and within a fortnight, all bypast strangeness explained to my superiors, I at length occupied my berth in the. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Stanriegate ... ye confessed that about Yule last bypast ye was at ane meeting with Sathan at Turfhills ... lykeways ye confessed that ye was at the Bents of Balruddrie and Gibson's Craig, where Sathan was present at them both '. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology] Reference
Glenartney, committed upon ye day of last bypast, be certain of ye said clan, be ye council and determination of ye haill, avow and to defend ye authors yrof qoever wald persew for revenge of ye same, qll ye said Jo. was occupied in seeking of venison to his Hieness, at command of. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
Was conuict for hanting and repairing with the gude nichtbouris and Quene of Elfame, thir diuers ʒeiris bypast, as scho had confesst be hir depositiounis, declaring that scho could nocht say reddelie how lang scho wes with thame; and that scho had friendis in that court quhilk wes of hir awin blude, quha had gude acquentance of the Quene of Elphane. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology] Reference
In 1588 Alison Peirson 'was conuict for hanting and repairing with the gude nychtbouris and Quene of Elfame, thir diuers ʒeiris bypast, as scho had confest be hir depositiounis, declaring that scho could nocht say reddelie how lang scho wes with thame; and that scho had freindis in that court quhilk wes of hir awin blude, quha had gude acquentence of the Quene of. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology] Reference
Drummond of Drummoneyryuch, his Majesties proper tennant, and ane of his fosters of Glenartney, committed upon the day of last bypast, be certain of the said clan, be ye council and determination of the haill, avow and to defend the authors therof qoever wald persew for revenge of the same, quhill the said Jo. was occupied in seeking of venison to his Hieness, at command of Pat. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
For if that which is seen only for a very brief space of time, or has been conceived of simply in a phantasm, and by the soul alone, through means of a dream, is remembered after she has mingled again with the body, and been dispersed through all the members, much more would she remember those things in connection with which she stayed during so long a time, even throughout the whole period of a bypast life. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
Congregatioun hes roung these two monethis bypast: me my selff wald ring now other two. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
"Imprimis, upon Hallowein last bypast, at twelff houris at even or thairby, thow, the said Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
And to lose her twa sons, as I was saying, and to hae dragoons clinked down on her for a month bypast, — for, be Whig or Tory uppermost, they aye quarter thae loons on victuallers, — to lose, as I was saying —”. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
3.6.6: With present yeres conioynyng age bypast. From Wordnik.com. ["Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"] Reference
11th Day: For consistency, "bypast" has been changed to "by-past". From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Promiser] Reference
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