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of or relating to the aorist tense
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At this stage, it only means that both Marlow and Jewel try to draw a continuous timeline, assuming that the future must be consistent with the past, so that Jim's next deeds depend, either on his aoristic fault on the Patna, or on the iterative departures of arrogant colonists.
(Lord 316-18) Nevertheless, if the common point between Marlow and Jewel is that they both conceive time as unified, the Past they refer to is radically different (aoristic versus iterative aspects) and accounts for their utter mutual incomprehension.
Its aoristic use refers to the unbroken continuity of the act.
(B) and (C) will be the aoristic counterparts of (A) for indirect evidence): (5) (A) (B) [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] IN ASCII] 'he come-AOR.3SG' 'he come-PRF.PRT' 'he came' 'he came (ind.
The following example would, in a certain context, have aoristic time reference (i.e.
Sthioul 1998 for a survey of related literature) that the passe compose can have either a perfective meaning, in which case it roughly corresponds to the present perfect, or an aoristic meaning, in which case it corresponds to the simple past.
The aoristic tenses (simple past, imperfect, pluperfect) are characteristically those of the historian, reciting the events of the past impersonally and without reference to his own position.
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