(a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
(a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
(n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
Example Sentences:
(1) A research on the acquisition of morphemes of plural, diminutive, augmentative, gerund, imperfect, and preterite with 109 Spanish children from 3 to 6 is reported.
Pretermit
Definition:
(v. t.) To pass by; to omit; to disregard.
Example Sentences:
(1) While it is becoming increasingly clear that this phenomenon may have functional significance in animal models of Parkinson's Disease, its potential importance in the clinical syndrome has been pretermitted.