preteritive

== English == === Adjective === preteritive (not comparable) (grammar, archaic) Used only or chiefly in the preterite or past tenses. a preteritive verb === Noun === preteritive (plural preteritives) A preteritive verb === References === “preteritive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.