A verb in the aorist past, that is, in the past tense and the aorist aspect (the event described by the verb viewed as a completed whole). Also called the perfective past. The nearest equivalent in English is the simple past. The term aorist is used particularly often for verbs in Ancient and Modern Greek
A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate
{s} in the aorist tense; of or relating to the aorist tense; relating to a verb tense that expresses a past action without specifying if the action is completed or continuing