Crossword-Solution: PRETERITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preterite | a. & n. | Same as Preterit. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRETERITE | anagram | PIERRETTE |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PRETERITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Expressing past time. | 1 answer |
| In grammar, the past tense. | 1 answer |
| Past tense | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PRETERITE (5)
You observe that it runs on just in the same manner as hntal, save and except that the e is substituted for a; and it will be as well to tell you that almost the only difference between the second, third, and fourth conjugation, and the first, is the substituting in the present, preterite and other tenses e or ou, or i for a; so you see that the Armenian verbs are by no means difficult.
Others understand, The moon shall be split on the Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style.
All weak preterite-forms, whether indicatives or participles, have been printed with "ed" rather than "t", participial adjectives and substantives, such as 'past,' alone excepted.
And in the preterite of the same verb, mattara, he has taken it away: mattaratit, he has taken it away from thee.
But I am sorry to hear ill news of young Taffril's brig." "Ah, poor fellow!" said the bailie, "he was a credit to the townmuch distinguished on the first of June." "But," said Oldbuck, "I am shocked to hear you talk of him in the preterite tense." "Troth, I fear there may be too much reason for it, Monkbarns;and yet let us hope the best.
Quotes with PRETERITE (3)
... endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love; guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference in quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.
Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for salvation. William argued holiness for these "second Sheep," without whom there'd be no elect. You can bet the Elect in Boston were pissed off about that. And it got worse. William felt that what Jesus was for the elect, Judas Iscariot was for the Preterite. Everything in the Creation has its equal and opposite counterpart. How can Jesus be an exception? could we feel for him any…
It appears that some part of Slothrop ran into the AWOL Džabajev one night in the heart of downtown Niederschaumdorf. (Some believe that fragments of Slothrop have grown into consistent personae of their own. If so, there's no telling which of the Zone's present-day population are offshoots of his original scattering. There's supposed to be a last photograph of him on the only record album ever put out by The Fool, an English rock group — seven musicians posed, in the arrogan…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1960).