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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Preterit

· Pret·er·it · IPA
01 a. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
  1. 1.
    Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.(Gram.)
  2. 2.
    Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.[R.]
    “Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa.” — Lowell.
02 n. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
  1. 1.
    The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.(Gram.)