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Bypast

adjective
1.
Well in the past; former.  Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone.  "Dreams of foregone times" , "Sweet memories of gone summers" , "Relics of a departed era"






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"Bypast" Quotes from Famous Books



... still, the precise time when the various movements of each occur. 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. Our wonder is excited when we look at the instruments formerly in use; that so much was done through them, and the advance made by art in the perfection of those now adopted, ...
— Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects • John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness

... I could not bear to gaze On that grey angler with his rod and line; I turn'd away—for to my heart the sight Brought back, from out the twilight labyrinth Of bypast things, the memory of a day, So sever'd from the present by the lapse Of many a motley'd, life-destroying year, That on my thoughts the recognition came Faintly at first—as breaks the timid dawn Above the sea, or evening's ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various



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