Aorist

[eәrist]

Definition

(noun.) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation.

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Definition

(n.) A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

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Definition

n. the name of certain tenses in the Greek verb expressing indefinite time.—adj. Aorist′ic.

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