Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being the verbal aspect that expresses a momentary or completed action, especially in past time.
- adjective Of or being the perfective aspect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to an aorist or indefinite tense; indeterminate as to time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar Of, or relating to the
aorist aspect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the aorist tense
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Examples
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The conjugation of "vidi" in the aoristic tense of the conditional mood is as follows: mi vidus, I should see. vi vidus, you would see. li (sxi, gxi) vidus, he (she, it) would see. ni vidus, we should see. vi vidus, you would see. ili vidus, they would see.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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In addition to the aoristic tense, the conditional mood has three active and three passive compound tenses, formed by combining the participles with the aoristic tense of "esti" in the conditional mood.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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It differs from the aoristic present by expressing an action as definitely in progress, or a condition as continuously existing, at the moment of speaking.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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The compound tenses formed by combining the future active participle with each of the three aoristic tenses of "esti" represent an act or state as about to occur in the present, past, or future, respectively, and are called "periphrastic future tenses."
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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The compound tenses formed by combining the future passive participle with each of the three aoristic tenses of "esti" represent an act or condition as "about to be undergone" in the present, past, or future, respectively.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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It differs from the aoristic past tense (35) and from the imperfect (113) by expressing an act or condition as definitely completed or perfected.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Compound tenses occur less often in Esperanto than in English, and an aoristic Esperanto tense may often be translated by an English compound tense, as "La birdoj flugas", the birds are flying.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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Beside the aoristic tense, six compound tenses are formed by combining the participles with the imperative mood "estu" of the auxiliary verb, but these tenses are seldom used.
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto Ivy Kellerman Reed 1922
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She caught at the nerves like certain aoristic combinations in music, like tones of a stringed instrument swept by the wind, enticing, unseizable.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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She caught at the nerves like certain aoristic combinations in music, like tones of a stringed instrument swept by the wind, enticing, unseizable.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
knitandpurl commented on the word aoristic
"Which was excellent, for they had room to spare for Hulda and her things, and room for her to wander about and sigh wistfully and be generally aoristic about her life."
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms by Charlie N. Holmberg
April 6, 2023