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Webster 1913 Edition

(ā′ō̍-rĭst)

Noun.

[Gr.

ἀόριστοσ

indefinite;

ἀ

priv. +

ὁρίζειν

to define, [GREEK] 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.

Noun.

[Gr. indefinite, of a priv. and limit.]

The name of certain tenses in the grammar of the Greek language, which express time indeterminate, that is, either past, present or future.