Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ghostly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g[=a]stlic.
See {Ghost}.]
1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual;
as, a ghostly confessor.
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. --Book
of Common
Prayer [Ch. of
Eng. ]
One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. --Jer.
Taylor.
2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. --Akenside.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, adv.
Spiritually; mystically. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ghostly
adj : like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a
phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral
emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: {apparitional},
{ghostlike}, {phantasmal}, {spectral}, {spiritual}]
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