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gastement (c.1170)
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gastement (c.1170)

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guastement  
  FEW:  vastare 14,202a Gdf:  gastement 1 4,242a GdfC: ∅ TL: gastement 4,208 DEAF:  gaster (gastement) G374 DMF:  gâtement  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1destruction, devastation: 
( 1407 )  Que please a vous, tresgracious seignur, considerer la gastement du dit burgh, et la povere estat des gentz, et la poy nombre en ycelle demurantz a present, et coment il est en point d'estre perduz et destruit a toutz jours  Rot Parl1 iii 618
2wasting, squandering: 
( 1381-82 )  car faire monstres de gens sans ce que leur navire soit prest pour passer, n’est que gastement de vostre argent  Lett Rois 235
mettre a gastement
to lay waste: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  La terre art e destruit e met a guastement  Horn 1743

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See also:

gast  gastance  gaster1 
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