preteritive

[Eng. preterit; -ive.] Gram.: An epithet applied to verbs used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses. prět-er-it-ne , s. [PRETERITENESS.] †pre-ter-lăpsed, a . [Latin præterlapsus , pa. par. of præterlabor =to glide by.] Gone by, past and gone. ( Glanvill : Vanity of Dogmatizing , ch. xv.] †pre-ter-le-gal, a. [Pref. preter- , and English legal (q. v.).] Exceeding the limits of law; not agreeable to law; illegal. "Evil customs preterlegal , and abuses personal."King Charles: Eikon Basilike.