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Definition of Agast
1. v. t. To affright; to terrify.
2. p. p. & a. See Aghast.
Definition of Agast
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of aghast) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agast
1. aghast [adj] - See also: aghast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agast
Literary usage of Agast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"See Oliphant, Old and Mid. English, p. 179. AGHAST, so spelt from a mistaken
analogy with ghastly, " ghost-like," is an incorrect form of old Eng. agast ..."
2. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1883)
"But why should aghast instead of agast be less correct than ghastly or ghost ?
... But furthermore agast is made out to be a participle from OE ege.y'an ! ..."
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