Preterit

Part of speech: noun (n.)

The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. [R.] Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. Lowell.