Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aorist \A"o*rist\ ([=a]"[-o]*r[i^]st), n. [Gr. 'ao`ristos
indefinite; 'a priv. + "ori`zein to define, ? boundary,
limit.] (Gram.)
A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as
completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects,
wholly indeterminate.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aorist
n 1: a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and
Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action)
without indicating its completion or continuation