aorist
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- noun
- /ˈeɪərɪst/
- Specialized
- The aorist subjunctive of strong denial makes it clear that rejection of one who seeks refuge in Christ is a complete and total impossibility.
Examples
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The Greek aorist (past) tense for 'died' suggests a specific point when the action occurred, at salvation.
Blog text (29) -
The aorist tense in Sanskrit does not specify whether an action was completed or ongoing.
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Wouldn't it have been easier to describe this as a situation where an Aorist verb was called for, but none in English exists?
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By giving me the absolute past of the pose (aorist), the photograph tells me death in the future (1981: 96).
Academic text (1995) -
There was an imperfect or durative series, an aorist or punctual one, and a "perfect" denoting a state resulting from an action, characterized by an -o- in the singular indicative root.
Academic text (1995) -
In classical Greek, the verb form is often in the aorist tense when describing past events.
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Many ancient texts utilize the aorist to convey actions that occurred at a specific moment in the past.
Compounds
- Specialized
A past verb form made by adding -s to a verb stem in some ancient languages
Surface Forms
Etymology
Aorist comes from Greek parts a- 'not' and horos 'boundary', as in horizon, so it meant 'not limited'. An aorist tense gives a simple view of a past action and does not say if the action was finished or how long it lasted.