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aorist

/ey-uh-rist/US // ˈeɪ ə rɪst //UK // (ˈeɪərɪst, ˈɛərɪst) //

先导式,先导语,先行者,先头语

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a verb tense, as in Classical Greek, expressing action or, in the indicative mood, past action, without further limitation or implication.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or in this tense.

Examples

  • The perfect seems at first sight out of place, but it is more expressive than the aorist.

  • This (observe the aorist ) implies that he brought some money with him from Macedonia to Corinth.

  • What if the future be derived from the aorist, instead of the aorist from the future?

  • And Cyrus adds that he was whipped for his pains, as we are in our villages for forgetting the first aorist of———.

  • In the Mœso-Gothic, however, there was a true reduplicate form; in other words, a perfect tense as well as an aorist.