gastliness

So that when you suggested how miserably the minds of profligate people are tortured, as well by their own acts of reflection upon themselves, as by the ter - rors and gastliness of punishments either present or expected, pardon me if I think you trifled: for it is not necessary only to make an instance of your BOOK THE SECOND.

Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812