Gāst

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gāst

Add: I. breath :-- Oroþ odde gāst flamen, Wrt. Voc. ii. 37, 12 : An. Ox. 18, 43. II. spirit, ghost, principle of life :-- Ic eallunga unāstyrigendlic būtan gāste læg, Hml. S. 23 b, 576. Sōna swā hē þās word gecwæd, hē his gāst onsende, Bl. H. 191, 29. Heó āgeaf hire gāst, Shrn. 72, 13. III. spirit in contrast with body, the immaterial part of man :-- Seoþþan se līchoma and se gāst gedǣlde beóþ, Bl. 111, 30. Ūre gāst biþ swīþe wīde farende ūrum unwillum, Bt. 34, II; F. 152, 3. Gefeáde gaast (spiritus) mīn in Gode, Lk. L. l, 47. Gebyrad ꝥ hig gebiddon on gāste, Jn. 4, 24. Sóþfæste sāwle, gāst hāligne, Chr. 1065 ; P. 193, 21. Eádige beóþ þearfena gāstas, Bl. H. 159, 29. Gehiérsume dǣm de ūre gǣsta (gāsta, ) Fæder bid, Past. 255, 8. III a. a person. Cf. similar use of soul :-- Duru sōna onarn þurh handhrine hāliges gāstes (at the touch, of St. Andrew's hand), An. 1002 : 1623. Gewīt þū mid hīwum on þæt hof (the ark) gangan, gāsta werode, Gen. 1346. Hē þām leódum sende hālige gāstas (the prophets), þā þām werude wīsdōm budon, Dan. 26. III b. used of spiritual beings :-- God sendeþ his engla gāstas tō ǣrendwrecum, Bl. H. 203, 14. III.c an incorporeal thing (fire, &c.) :-- Līg ealle forswealg, gǣsta gīfrost, B. 1123: Cri. 814. Þec gǣstas hergen, byrnende fȳr and beorht sumor, Az. 94. IV. an incorporeal being, a spirit, (a) good :-- Mid þreáte hāligra gāsta, Bl. H. 95, 7. Englas beód tō degnunge gǣstum on world sended, 209, 23. (b) bad :-- Se forhwyrfda gāst, Bl. H. 31, 4. Mid āwyridum gāstum furiis, i. malignis spiritibus, An. Ox. 4666. V. divine spirit :-- His þegnas wǣron þāgyt flǣsclices mōdes, and nǣron mid gāstes mægene getremede, Bl. H. 17, 6. VI. the soul of a deceased person, spoken of as inhabiting the unseen world :-- Huæt his gāstæ æfter deóthdæge doemid uueorthae, Txts. 149, 19. Fōe se hlāford to and dā hīgon and þæt lond mīnum gāste nytt gedōen, C. D. i. 311, 19. Hig samod restad on ānre byrgenne, and þā gāstas samod gefeód on ānum wuldre, Mart. H. 214, 19. v. frōfor-, þegnung-gāst. gast

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