2 entries under this word

Aorist

Aʹo-rĭst, n.

noun

n. [Gr. ἀόριστος, without boundaries, indefinite, from ἀ priv. and ὁρίζειν, to mark out boundaries, ὅρος, 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.

A'ō-rist, a.

adjective

a. Indefinite or indeterminate as to past time. Harris.