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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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14 words match “PRETERIT”

PRETERIT a. 3 definitions
Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. [R.] Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. Lowell.
PRETERITE a.
Same as Preterit.
PRETERITENESS n.
Same as Preteritness.
PRETERITION n. 3 definitions
The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. Bp. Hall.
PRETERITIVE a.
Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
PRETERITNESS n.
The quality or state of being past. Bentley. Lowell.
AROSE n.
The past or preterit tense of Arise.
ATE n.
the preterit of Eat.
BARE n.
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
PRETERMISSION n.
See Preterition.
PRETERPERFECT a.
Old name of the tense also called preterit.
STRONG a.
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regu…
WAS n.
The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense; as, I was; he was.
WEAK a.
Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) and past participle by adding to the present the suffix - ed, -d, or the variant form -t; as in the verbs abash, abashed; abate, abated; deny, denied; feel, felt. See Strong, 19 (a).