Preterit

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm french and I wouldn't know for sure, but why couldn't it be a preterit, as David above implied ? ❋ Unknown (2005)

This occurs especially in the present and preterit, i.e. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In my Donatus, quoth Friar John, I could find yet but three times or tenses, the preterit, the present, and the future; doubtless here the fourth ought to be a work of supererogation. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The teachers tried to maintain their authority, and made it seem like they knew what they were talking about when they utilized pretentious verbiage and pompous diction in dissertation of the preterit occurences. ❋ Bard (2001)

Present: expressed by lack of preterit suffix in verb; and by suffixed - s ❋ Unknown (1921)

The verbal forms in-_ara_ and-_iera_ were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative. ❋ Unknown (1899)

In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Moreover when they tell me, one tells me the word in the infinitive mood, another in the indicative; one in the first, another in the second person; one in the present, another in the preterit. ❋ Unknown (1898)

_ Particle, denoting recent past time, prefixed to form the proximate preterit tense. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

The Abbé here mistook the preterit of _ul_ to arrive, for the noun _xul_, a flute. ❋ Daniel Garrison Brinton (1868)

Passive preterit from _yocoya_; _yocolia_, to be made, composed, created. ❋ Various (1868)

We have also atlaça, to combat, or be in agony; it means likewise to hurl or dart from the water, and in the preterit makes Atlaz. ❋ Ignatius Donnelly (1866)

Bear in mind that lay is a transitive verb, of which the preterit and the past participle are laid. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Lie is an intransitive verb, of which the preterit is lay and the past participle lain. ❋ Unknown (1861)

We have also atlaça, to combat or be in agony; it means likewise to hurl or dart from the water, and in the preterit makes _atlaz_. ❋ Unknown (1846)

The passive is formed by the addition of the participle preterit to the different tenses of the verb to be, which must therefore be here exhibited. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

The potential form of speaking is expressed by may, can, in the present; and might, could, or should, in the preterit, joined with the infinitive mood of the verb. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)