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t. & i. [In Fr. a grouper; Sp. agrupar; Ital. aggrupare, aggropare = to knot or bring together.] To group together; to combine into a group persons or things originally separate. So painters group together figures on their canvas. [GROUP.] "Bodies of divers natures, which are aggrouped or combined together, are agreeable and pleasant to the sight."-Drymen: Dufresnoy, § 60. *ag-group'ed, pa . par . [AGGROUP.] *ag-group-ing, pr . par . [AGGROUP.] *ag-grûg-gynge, pr . par . [AGREG.] ag-gui'ze, [AGUISE.] *agh, *aghe, *aght ( gh guttural or mute), *agt, * agte ( all Eng .), âw, awe ( Scotch ), v.t. (pret. & pa. par. aght ). [A.S. agan, deg an =(1) to own, to po e , to have, to obtain; (2) to give; pret. & pa. par. aht , ahte , æhte .] 1. To owe anything; to be under an obligation in duty to do anything; ought. [Aw.] Idumus the derfe kyng, and his dere cosyn Offorenses the fire that hym faith aght , To Macauas the men meu it all somyn." Colonne: "Gest Hystoriale" of the Destruction of Troy, 18,092-13,094. Often used in the phrase "As hom wele aght " as they were in duty bound. "To a counsell to come for a cause herh, And his wille for to wete as hom wele aght." Colonne: Gest Hystoriale , 1,703, 1,704. IMG:content-0275.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To acknowledge. (Colonne: Gest Hist or i ale, Glo arial Index .) a-ghast' ( h mute), *a-gast', *a-gast'e, * a gast', * a-gast-ěd, * a-ga'zed, * a gāze, pa , par . of AGAST, also a. & adv. [According to Hoare, from A.S. gast (1) the breath, (2) a spirit, a ghost. Aghast would then signify frightened, as if one had seen a spirit or ghost. Wedgwood considers it connected with the Fris. guwysje ; Dan. gyse; Sw. dialects, gysasig = to shudder at; guse, gust = horror, fear, revulsion; Scotch gousty , gou strous waste, desolate, awful, full of the preternatural, frightful. The ha crept into it from its being confounded with "ghostly." On the other hand, the form agazed arose at a time when it was erroneously thought that it meant set a- gazing on an object of astonishment and horror. Richardson adopts the last-mentioned etymology.] [AGAST, v.t. ] Terrified, frightened, appalled, struck with terror. *1. With the idea of gazing, in a literal or figurative sense more or le implied. "The French exclaimed, the devil was in arms; All the whole army stood agazed on him." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Part I., 1. 1. "In the first week of the reign of King Edward VI., whilst most men's minds stood a gaze , Master Harley, in the parish church of Oxford, in a solemn Lent sermon, publiquely preached antipapal doctrine, and powerfully pre ed justification by faith alone."Fuller: Worthies; Bucks. 2. With no such idea implied. "My limbs do quake, my thought a gasted is." Mirrour for Magistr ., p. 454. "The porter of his lord was full sore agast." Chaucer: C. Т. , 285. a shivering wretch Aghast and comfortle . Thomson: The Seasons, Autumn, Often combined with the verb "to stand," implying that one is so struck with terror that he remains motionle and incapable of action. "The commi ioners read and stood aghast."Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. ix. See aiso examples under No. 1. * aghe, s. [AWE.]