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English Dictionary: Aorist by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aorist
n
  1. a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aorist \A"o*rist\ ([amac]"[osl]*r[icr]st), n. [Gr. 'ao`ristos
      indefinite; 'a priv. + "ori`zein 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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