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n. Alternative form of preterite.

adj. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

adj. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

n. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Bygone; past.

In grammar, expressing past time; past: applied especially to the tense which expresses past action or existence simply, without further implication as to continuousness, etc.: as, wrote is the preterit tense of write.

n. Time past; the past.

n. In grammar, the tense which signifies past time, or which expresses action or being as simply past or finished. Abbreviated preterit

n. a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense

"As Nadelmann notes, it is now acceptable to admit pot smoking as preterit (thanks, Barack), a big step forward from the awkward half-admissions of the 1990s."

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