ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ED.] Frightened, terrified; fuller form of AGHAST ppl. a.

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c. 1382.  Wyclif, Luke xxiv. 37 (MS. O. a. 1420). The troublid and agasted gessiden hem for to se a spirit [v.r. agast].

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1579.  Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. on Tim., 737/1. Nothing agasted at it. Ibid., 699/1. The torments woulde make vs agasted [printed agashed].

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1583.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 59. Then shiuering moothers throgh court doo wander agasted.

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