Aorist

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  • noun. A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek, that expresses action without indicating its completion or continuation.
  • noun. A form of a verb in some languages, such as Classical Greek or Sanskrit, that in the indicative mood expresses past action.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In grammar, a tense of the Greek verb expressing action (in the indicative, past action) without further limitation or implication; hence, also, a tense of like form or like signification in other languages, as the Sanskrit.
  • Indefinite with respect to time.
  • Pertaining or similar to the aorist.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A verb in the aorist past, that is, in the past tense and the aorist aspect (the event described by the verb viewed as a completed whole). Also called the perfective past. The nearest equivalent in English is the simple past. The term aorist is used particularly often for verbs in Ancient and Modern Greek.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a verb in the aorist aspect.
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  • noun. a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
    • Word Usage
    "It's in what's called the aorist tense, which is a technical way of saying that Jesus 'anger is a temporary feeling."
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