| 单词 | preter tense |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspreter tense 1. Grammar. Expressing past action or state; = preterite adj. 2. Chiefly in preter tense (frequently written as one word in early use). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [adjective] > past preteritea1450 perfectc1450 preterc1450 past1729 preteritive?1730 c1450 in D. Thomson Middle Eng. Grammatical Texts (1984) 26 How many tens be þere? V... Pretertens vnperfyth..spekyth of tyme vnperfythly passyd, as amabam: ‘I louede’... Þe pretyrtens perfyth..spekyth of tyme perfythly pasyd..as amaui: ‘I haue louyd’... Þe pretyrtens pluperfyth..spekyth of tyme more þan perfythly passyd..as amaueram: ‘I had louyd’. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 86 Circumlocutyng of al the pretertenses. 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1347/2 Which wordes wer..prophesyed by the verbe of the pretertemps or time passed. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. Aviiiv He englissheth the verbe of the pretertence resurrexerint, for the future. 1546 Bp. S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles 29 b The pretertens rather declareth a perfection in thacte, then the passing ouer the time in the acte. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 14 I..paralogized on their condition in the present, & in the pretertense. 1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 30 So the Saying of God runs in the Præter-Tense, ‘Unto thy Seed I have given the Land’. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 114 In Latin..the Preter Time of the Perfect Action, is commonly called the Preter-pluperfect, that is, the Preter more than Perfect. 1747 S. Johnson Plan Dict. 16 Our verbs are conjugated by auxiliary words, and are only changed in the preter tense. 1795 T. Paine Age of Reason ii. 20 The expressions are in the preter-tense, and it would be down-right idiotism to say, that a man could prophesy in the preter-tense. 1804 J. Kelly Pract. Gram. Antient Gaelc xiii 53 It may be formed of the preter tense of the irregular verb jannoo. < as lemmas |
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