gast

American  

[gast] / gæst /

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.

1. to terrify or frighten.

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Etymology

Origin of gast

before 1000; Middle English gasten, Old English gǣstan

Example Sentences

Eac swilce is se F�der gast and halig, and se Sunu is gast and halig untwylice; �eah-hw��ere se Halga Gast is synderlice geh�ten Halig Gast, ��t ��t h� ealle �ry sind gem�nelice.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

And schewed welles of watres ware, And groundes of ertheli world unhiled are, For thi snibbing, Laverd myne; For onesprute of gast of wreth thine.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

And se engel �a �teowde �am folce �one awyrigedan gast on �yssere gelicnysse.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

Note also the characteristic long a; as in swa for swo, so; gast, ghost; fra, fro; faas, foes.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

De lady make welcome her gast in,     Ash he shtep to de dop of de shtair, She look like an angel got lost in     A forest of audumn-prown hair.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey