aorist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation

From Ancient Greek ἀόριστος (aóristos, “unbounded”).

Besides, the aorist {Greek} in its present surrounding is perplexing. — The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original, Homer
“Come up, Jack,” said one of the boys, lifting me under the chin; “he hit you, and you hit him, you know.” “Pay your debts before you go,” said a monitor, striding up to me, after hearing how the honour lay; “Ridd, you must go through with it.” “Fight, for the sake of the junior first,” cried the little fellow in my ear, the clever one, the head of our class, who had mocked John Fry, and knew all about the aorists, and tried to make me know it; but I never went more than three places up, and then it was an accident, and I came down after dinner. — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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