Usage examples (14)

• - Grammar, (tense) signifying happening in unrestricted or unspecified past. aoristic, adj. indefinite; pertaining to aorist.
• It differs from the aoristic past tense (35) and from the imperfect (113) by expressing an act or condition as definitely completed or perfected.
• She caught at the nerves like certain aoristic combinations in music, like tones of a stringed instrument swept by the wind, enticing, unseizable.
• 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.