Grammar. Designating or relating to a verbal tense which denotes an action completed prior to some past point of time, specified or implied; past…

= preterimperfect, adj. n.

= preterperfect, adj. n.

Of a tense: expressing past action going on but not complete; = imperfect, adj. 6.

Grammar. Of a tense: denoting a completed state or action; perfect. Also occasionally used of the time indicated by a such a tense. Now rare.

Grammar. Of a tense: pluperfect. Obsolete.

= pluperfect, adj. (in various senses). Now rare.

Grammar. = pluperfect, adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

(a) adj. designating a tense combining past time reference with the perfect aspect, pluperfect (see pluperfect, adj. 1); (b) n. the past perfect…