gast

[gast]

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.

1. to terrify or frighten.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gast¹

before 1000; Middle English gasten, Old English gǣstan

Example Sentences

Paintings, from artists such as Thomas Kinkade, Morgan Weistling and John Gast have also been used by the federal agency.

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But the most overtly white nationalist post came on July 23, when the DHS shared a painting from 19th-century artist John Gast featuring a white-robed woman floating over a U.S. landscape, an embodiment of the concept of manifest destiny, a policy used to justify the genocide of Native Americans.

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Now, behold the latest DHS salvo: a July 23 X post of a 19th century painting by John Gast titled “American Progress.”

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Gast finished his painting in 1872, when the U.S. was in the last stages of conquest.

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Even Gast and O’Sullivan wouldn’t count as Heritage Americans by the strictest definition, since the former was Prussian and the latter was the son of Irish and English immigrants.

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