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aorist Gram.|ˈeɪərɪst|
[ad. Gr. ἀόριστ-ος indefinite, f. ἀ priv. + ὁριστ-ός, f. ὁρίζ-ειν to limit, define.]
One of the past tenses of the Greek verb, which takes its name from its denoting a simple past occurrence, with none of the limitations as to completion, continuance, etc., which belong to the other past tenses. It corresponds to the simple past tense in English, as ‘he died.’
1581Campion in Confer. ii. (1584) N iiij b, What tempus is the verbe? Camp. I thinke it be the Aoriste. 1750Harris Hermes i. vii. (1786) 123 Yet it seems agreeable to reason, that wherever Time is signified without any further circumscription, than that of Simple present, past or future, the Tense is an Aorist. 1865R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. (1877) 297 In the Authorized Version the Greek aorist is very frequently represented by the English perfect. |