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Webster 1913 Edition


Preterist

Pret′er-ist

,
Noun.
[Pref.
preter-
+
-ist
.]
1.
One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.
2.
(Theol.)
One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled.
Farrar.