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beghast en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + ghast. Cognate with German begeistern (“to inspire, excite, thrill”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To fill with shock, awe, wonder, or amazement; inspire; enthuse.
   • [...] And all, but my own heart-wound I Beside me, (as I sat alone, Beghasted with wild dreams), [...] 1844, Thomas Hood, Hood's magazine and comic miscellany: Volume 1:
   • "Oh, but Fräulein! You beghast me! Such an honor!" 1942, Phil Stong, The iron mountain:
   • […] the beast of the earth after his kind, every thing that creepeth after his kind, and, as it were, the dod-begasted lie after his kind. 1904, Julius M. Parker, God Never Spoke:

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beghost