Preterit

a.	1.	(Gram.) Past; - applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
	2.	Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. - Lowell.
n.	1.	(Gram.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Noun

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preterit - a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense Synonyms: preterite

past, past tense, preterite