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A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
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Definitions
- n. A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
- n. a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
- A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
- A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action ascompleted in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, whollyindeterminate.
- n a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation