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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.

Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

Of or pertaining to the aorta.

Inflammation of the aorta.

Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.

A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.

A dealer in aphorisms. [Used in derogation or contempt.] Milton.

A writer or utterer of aphorisms.

In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

In the form or manner of aphorisms; pithily.

To make aphorisms.

A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setæ, but is without shelly plates.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

Resembling apoplexy.

Doubting; skeptical. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

Without pores.