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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bypassit, Bipassit, p.p. Also: bypassyt. [By adv. 2 b. Cf. Bypast.]

1. Of time: Passed or elapsed; gone by.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxi. 966.
Quhethyre a ȝere hale ore a day Was by-passit, he cuth nocht say 1423 Edinb. Chart. 55.
Quhill the saide fyve yhere be fulleli bipassit 1461 Peebles B. Rec. 140.
Fra the iij yeris be fulleli bypassit and outrvn 1478 Acta Aud. 66/1.
The said foure monethtis being bipassit 1527 Black Friars Perth 192.
The said xl dayis being by-passit(2) 1463 Wemyss Chart. 83.
In ony tyme bypassit 1515 Douglas Corr. 69.
As ȝe haf beyne in tymme bypassyt(3) 1478 Binns P. MS. No. 17.
The fest of Witsonday last by passit 1495 Liber Aberbr. 291.
The act of court maid the xxxi day of October last bypassit 1520 Fife Sheriff Ct. 181.
The said term of Witsonday last bypassit 1525 Douglas Corr. 99.
The materis was sped … or Crystmaesse last bypassit 1537–8 Prot. Bk. T. Johnstoun 31.
William Symontoun, quha deit at the fest of Martynmes last bipassit 1547 Dunferm. B. Rec. 368.
To the gild bredir for the occuping of the fredom for thir twa yeiris bipassit

2. In or belonging to past time. 1456 Hay I. 2/3.
The thrid [chapter] is of the tribulaciouns of the kirk by passit 1470 Liber Aberbr. 162.
The quhilk hundreth markis … of anvel bypassyt I oblisis me … to pay