preterit

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.

Time past; the past.

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

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

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

Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

Alternative form of preterite.

a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense