Preterit(a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
Preterit(a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
Preterit(n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
Preterite(a. & n.) Same as Preterit.
Preteriteness(n.) Same as Preteritness.
Preterition(n.) The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
Preterition(n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, \"I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just.\" Called also paraleipsis.
Preterition(n.) The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
Preteritive(a.) Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
Preteritness(n.) The quality or state of being past.
Words within preterits