Aorist

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:50:35

A"o*rist (#), n. [Gr. indefinite; priv. + to define, boundary, limit.] Gram.

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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