Past, gone by, or no longer current; situated to the side of the past or beside previous events (archaic poetic form).
From 'by' (beside, near) + 'past,' this archaic or poetic construction creates an adjective describing things that are beyond or beside the past, emphasizing their distance in time.
Poets loved combining 'by' with other words—'bypast' sounds like something from a fairytale, and it hints at a time when English was more flexible with how you could stick prepositions together!
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