aorist tense

plural aorist tenses

1. countableuncountablegrammarA grammatical category in some languages expressing perfective aspect and past tense of verbs; the aorist.
2. countableespeciallyuncountablegrammarA set of verb forms in Ancient Greek featuring the grammatical category.

   Simple past time is expressed by the aorist tense! The aorist tense describes the past action as a total event viewed in its entirety.

   2002, Erwin Penner, A Guide to New Testament Greek, Toronto: Clements, →ISBN, page 42

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   Of the Aorist Tense, as of the Perfect, there are two distinct forms: the older form, commonly called the Second Aorist; and the more recent, commonly called the First Aorist

   1857, Joseph Gouge Greenwood, The Elements of Greek Grammar, London: Walton, →OCLC, page 94