AORIST

AORIST, among grammarians, a tense peculiar to the Greek language, comprehending all the tenses, or rather expressing an action in an indeterminate manner, without any regard to past, present, or future.

Aoust, a town of Piedmont in Italy, capital of the duchy of the same name, situated about 50 miles north of Turin, in $7^\{\backslash circ\}\; 10\text{'}$ E. long. and $45^\{\backslash circ\}\; 45\text{'}$ N. lat.