aorist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=o=rist

CIDE DICTIONARY

aorist, n. [Gr. 'ao`ristos indefinite; 'a priv. + "ori`zein to define, boundary, limit.].

 A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

aorist, n. & adj. Gram.
--n. an unqualified past tense of a verb (esp. in Greek), without reference to duration or completion.
--adj. of or designating this tense.

Derivative

aoristic adj.

Etymology

Gk aoristos indefinite f. a- not + horizo define, limit

ROGET THESAURUS

aorist

Course

N corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time, duration, aorist, elapsing, aoristic, progressive, in due time, in due season, in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time, in time, labitur et labetur, truditur dies die, fugaces labuntur anni, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this.

Different time

N different time, other time, aorist, aoristic, indefinite, at that time, at which time, at that moment, at that instant, then, on that occasion, upon, not now, some other time, when, whenever, whensoever, upon which, on which occasion, at another time, at a different time, at some other time, at any time, at various times, some one of these days, one of these days, one fine morning, eventually, some day, by and by, sooner or later, some time or other, once upon a time.