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