[ noun ] a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation <noun.communication>
Aorist \A"o*rist\ ([=a]"[-o]*r[i^]st), n. [Gr. 'ao`ristos indefinite; 'a priv. + "ori`zein to define, ? 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.