Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, expressing past time; also, limited to past tenses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar Used only or chiefly in the
preterite orpast tenses .
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English: geraðlic], root [Old English: rað], with the preteritive prefix
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