Vocabulary : Preter- to Preteritive

Preter- : A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural.
Preterhuman : More than human.
Preterient : Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.
Preterimperfect : Old name of the tense also called imperfect.
Preterist : One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor. ;; One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled.

Preterit : Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past. ;; Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. ;; The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
Preterite : Same as Preterit.
Preteriteness : Same as Preteritness.
Preterition : The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. ;; A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis. ;; The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
Preteritive : Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.

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