Thesaurus: preterit

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1. a. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
2. a. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
3. n. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit word/tense">tense.
4. n. a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
5. 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. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
6. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or stateas past.
7. n. a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense