gast en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ɡɑːst/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɡæst/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.
Meanings
-
(obsolete) To frighten.
[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.
c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature [D4], recto:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gasting | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gasted | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gasted | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| gasts | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |