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Preterit
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adjective
Preterit
adj. (Written also
preterite
and
praeterite
)
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."
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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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