Gast
name, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To frighten. obsolete
"[H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"[H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled."
Etymology
From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.
* As a German surname, from Gast (“guest”) (see below). * As an Alemannic German surname, shortened from the personal Germanic names Arbogast and Gastolf (compare German Gasthof). * As a French surname, from Old French gast (“wasteland”).
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