Aorist

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 1 C! I like it! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:50:35

A"o*rist (#), n. [Gr. indefinite; priv. + 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.

aspectual language	How to translate a Latin sentence	The Idiot's Guide to the Transmutation of Morals	Your Latin roots are showing
Gnomic	Sanskrit	Italian school system	The Lord's Prayer: Quenya
perfect	Ablaut	Lady Caroline Lamb	Quenya
Preterperfect	How to be a geek	Past Anterior	Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
Free Indirect Discourse	Conflate	future tense	Hieronymus Bosch
water of life	A Precious, mouldering pleasure 't is	The New Pornographers	Middle Voice

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