Gast Definition

găst
gasts
verb
To frighten; scare.
American Heritage

(obsolete) To frighten.

And be not so a-gast, for shame! "”Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame.
Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled. "”William Shakespeare, King Lear.
Wiktionary

Origin of Gast

  • Middle English gasten from Old English gǣstan from gāst ghost

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English gasten, from Old English gÇ£stan.

    From Wiktionary

Gast Sentence Examples

  • It produced in England the Roman du Saint Graal and the Roman de Merlin, both from the pen of Robert de Borron; the Roman de Lancelot; the Roman de Tristan, which is attributed to a fictitious Lucas de Gast.

  • The people working in the old-timey haunted house had fun trying to gast (ie. scare) the customers.

  • After studying Middle English literature Emma loved using the word gast instead of scare.

  • It's interesting how word usage changes over time, so "gast" is no longer used but we still have "ghastly" and "aghast" from the same root.

  • In fact it may safely be said that, with the exception of the prose Tristan, always attributed either to Luces de Gast, or Belie de Borron, the authority of Map has been invoked for the entire vast mass of Arthurian prose romantic literature.

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