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ghastful, gastful, a. Obs. or arch.|ˈgɑːstfʊl, -æ-|
Forms: α. 4–8 gastful(l, 5–6 gasteful(l. β. 6–7 ghastfull, 6–9 ghastful.
[f. gast v.1 + -ful.]
1. Full of fear, timid, scared.
1388Wyclif Deut. xx. 8 Who is a ferdful man and of gastful herte? 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 221 An hare and a sheppe bene ful gastefull. a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 51 b, Musidorus had gathered his spirites together and yet casting a gastfull countenaunce vpon him. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. xxi. 137 The..fond Gastful opinions of all the other Dottrels arise out of one of these two rootes. 1708Ozell tr. Boileau's Lutrin v. 103 The Prelate saw their Fall with ghastful Eyes.
2. Dreadful, frightful, terrible.
α1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxvi. (1495) 830 He makyth a ruthefull noyse and gastfull whan one profryth to fyghte wyth a nother. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xiii. 224 Hou gastful is this place! 1519W. Horman Vulg. 57 b, His loke is horryble and gastfull. 1566Drant Horace's Sat. i. i. A v b, Those goodes That..brings of feare suche gastfull fluddes. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 170 Here will I dwell apart In gastfull groue. 1616J. Lane Cont. Sqr.'s T. ix. 365 This gastfull dreame..soone awooke him. 1658tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Char. xii. 43 After many gastfull contortions. 1714J. Fortescue-Aland Fortescue's Abs. & Lim. Mon. 4 Gastful..came to signify any thing that look'd frightful.
βa1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 132 With a ghastful noise. 1606J. Carpenter Soloman's Solace xxv. 101 They were..subdued vnto ghastfull death. 1702Dennis Monument xxix. 24 The joining Squadrons..make one ghastful Charnel of the Field. 1891H. C. Halliday Someone must suffer III. xi. 196 Goblin shapes..grinning and gibbering in ghastful fashion.
3. = ghastly a. 3.
1720Gay Dione ii. i, What pious care my ghastful lid shall close?
Hence † ˈg(h)astfully adv., † ˈgastfulness.
1398Trevisa Barth de P.R. vii. xliii. (1495) 256 The heere of the hede arysyth and stondeth vppe for some fere and gastfulnesse. c1449Pecock Repr. iv. i. 421 Scripture..seith ful gastfulli thus. a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1629) 405 A solitarie darknesse..naturally..breeds a kind of irke⁓some gastfulnesse. 1664Dryden Rival Ladies iv. iii, He looks so ghastfully, Would I were past him. 1713Swift etc. Frenzy J. Dennis Wks. 1755 III. i. 138 He often stares ghastfully. 1726De Foe Hist. Devil (1822) 246 A ghastfully frightful fellow. |