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Aorist

noun
1.
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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"Aorist" Quotes from Famous Books



... dies, coram praefecto copiarum illi exprobraverat nescio quid, quod in aula Syriaca in Cypriorum opprobrium effutivisse dicebatur." The English translator has, by omitting the most important words, and by using the aorist instead of the preterpluperfect tense, ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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