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preterite


  3  definitions  found 
 
  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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