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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preterite \Pret"er*ite\, a. & n.
Same as {Preterit}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preterit \Pret"er*it\ (?; 277), a. [L. praeteritus p. p. of
praeterire to go or pass by praeter beyond, by + ire to go:
cf F. pr['e]t['e]rit. See {Issue}.] [Written also
{preterite} and {pr[ae]terite}.]
1. (Gram.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an
action or state as past.
2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by [R.]
Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as
Romulus or Numa. --Lowell.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
preterite
adj : (grammar) a verb tense used to relate past action "the
preterite tense" [syn: {preterit}]
n : a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense [syn:
{preterit}]
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