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Preterit   Listen
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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