bye-stander
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bye-stander (plural bye-standers)
- Obsolete form of bystander.
- 1785, Thomas Marryat, Therapeutics; or, The Art of Healing, 7th edition, Birmingham: […] Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, […], London, pages 35–36:
- Æruginous vomiting, ſpitting at the bye-ſtanders, gnaſhing or grinding of the teeth, or ſnatching at the bed-clothes, are the fore-runners of a diſſolution.
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 300:
- His being only a bye-stander was not disclaimed.
- 1819, John Lewis Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, London: John Murray, […], page 356:
- If a bye-stander assists one of the parties with his advice, it gives no offence to the other; […]