ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ED.] Frightened, terrified; fuller form of AGHAST ppl. a.
c. 1382. Wyclif, Luke xxiv. 37 (MS. O. a. 1420). The troublid and agasted gessiden hem for to se a spirit [v.r. agast].
1579. Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. on Tim., 737/1. Nothing agasted at it. Ibid., 699/1. The torments woulde make vs agasted [printed agashed].
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 59. Then shiuering moothers throgh court doo wander agasted.
