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a. past
WordNet
n. a road that takes traffic around the edge of a town [syn: circumferential, ring road]
a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current [syn: shunt, electrical shunt]
v. avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!" [syn: short-circuit, go around, get around]
[also: bypast]
See bypass
Usage examples of "bypast".
We have from time to time for these several years bypast, emitted and published several declarations and publick testimonies against the breaches of the same, as is evident not only from our declarations of late, but also from all the wrestlings and contendings of the faithful in former times, all which we here adhere to, approve of, and homologate, as they are founded upon the Word of God and are agreeable thereto.
Hallowein last bypast, at twelff houris at even or thairby, thow, the said Thomas Leyis, accompaneit with umquhil Janett Wischert, Isobel Coker, Isobel Monteithe, Kathren Mitchell, relict of umquhil Charles Dun, litster, sorceraris and witches, with ane gryt number of ither witches, cam to the mercat and fish cross of Aberdene, under the conduct and gyding of the dewill, present with you all in company, playing before you on his kynd of instruments.
The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe.