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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[OE.

gastlich

gostlich

, AS.

gāstlic

. See

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.

Of or pertaining to apparitions.

Akenside.

adv.

Spiritually; mystically.

Chaucer.

Adj.

Spiritual; relating to the soul; not carnal or secular.

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.

Spiritual; having a character from religion; as a ghostly father.

Pertaining to apparitions.