a. [ad. Gr. ἀοριστικ-ός, f. ἀόριστ-ος: see AORIST and -IC.]
1. Undefined, indeterminate.
1846. Grote, Greece (1854), I. 488. In the genuine Grecian epic, the theme was an unknown and aoristic past.
1876. G. Meredith, Beauch. Career, II. xv. 277. Like certain aoristic combinations in music, like tones of a stringed instrument swept by the wind, enticing, unseizable.
2. Of or pertaining to the aorist tense.
1860. Ellicott, Life of our Lord, vii. 334, note. The contested ἀπέστειλεν (John xviii. 24) is taken in its simple aoristic sense.
1876. Farrar, Gr. Syntax, § 124. The existence of the aoristic termination in such perfects as vixi, scrip-si, etc.
