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▪ I. ghostly, a.|ˈgəʊstlɪ|
Forms: see ghost and -ly1.
[OE. gástlic, f. gást ghost + -lic, -ly1.]
1. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; spiritual. Opposed to bodily or fleshly; occas. to natural. Now purely literary and arch.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 588 He [Crist] is se grundweall þære gastlican cyrcan. c1050Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 303 Heræfter we moton us ᵹeᵹearwian mid gastlicum wæpnum. c1175Lamb. Hom. 105 Ure wununge is on heuene, þider we sculen hihᵹen of þissere erfeðnesse mid gastlichere blisse. a1225Ancr. R. Pref. 23 Fleschliche fondunges. And gastliche baðe. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1534 Also ys slagheter gostly To vse to speke vyleyny. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 49 Gostely matrimonye bitwixi Crist and Cristen mennus soulis. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 7 Thes thre ladyes..Three gostly giftes..Unto the kyng..did present. 1549Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 25 So doeth the souls pyne a way for default of gostly meate. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Ep. Ded., I shall beg of God that your honour may receive..Ghostly Strength in the reading this booke. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxv, Qualified to administer both worldly and ghostly comfort. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) II. xiii. 286 It may have a literal, but it has also a ‘ghostly’, a spiritual signification. 1865Mozley Mirac. iii. 60 A miracle..has a ghostly force and import which nature has not. 1877Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xiv. 362 How many disorders, ghostly and bodily, are transmitted to us by inheritance?
b. (With mixture of sense 4.) (Our, etc.) ghostly enemy, † foe: the Devil.
1447,1526[see enemy n. 1 b]. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 2357 Remedy principall Agaynst all sautes of your goostly foo. 1603Catechism in Prayer-bk. N 7 That hee will keepe vs..from our ghostly enemy.
c. (With mixture of sense 3.) ghostly father: a father confessor. So ghostly adviser, ghostly director, etc.; also ghostly comfort, ghostly counsel, etc., used esp. with reference to what is rendered by a priest to a penitent or one near death.
a1225Ancr. R. 178 Gostlich cumfort. c1290Becket 1015 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 135 ‘Sire’, he seide, ‘ore gostliche fader þov were here-bi-fore’. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 457 His goostly fader Donstan. 1536R. Beerley in Four C. Eng. Lett. 34 Wych no man may know but my gostly fader. 1552Prayer Bk., Communion (Whytchurche) N iij b, That he may receiue such gostly counsail, aduise and comfort, as hys conscience maye be releued. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 49 A Ghostly Confessor. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 63 We ought to confesse our sinnes unto our Ghostly Father. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull Pref., When thou gavest ghostly Counsel to dying Felons. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. lxxix. 380 He had refused ghostly attendance. 1798Ferriar Illustr. Sterne v. 155 Her ghostly directors thought it very edifying to punish her contumacy, by refusing her the Sacrament. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 129 A ghostly instructor was soon found, ready to accomplish his conversion in the shortest possible time. 1871G. Meredith H. Richmond xxiv. (1889) 215 We shall not be the worse for a ghostly adviser at hand.
†2. Of persons and their actions: Spiritual, devout, religious. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxxxvi. 9 All fleschly men are enemys til gostly. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 999 For to lyue slike gastely lyfe. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 48 Ye be of good condicions, and goostly of your lyuyng. 1483― Gold. Leg. 60 a/2 Therfore we ought..to cesse of the werkes of synne & tentende to doo ghoostly werkes.
3. Concerned with sacred things, or with the church; belonging to an ecclesiastical order or to a member of such an order; spiritual as opposed to lay, secular, or temporal. arch. Also † ghostly day: a day set apart for worship.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xvi. [xxvii.] (1890) 84 Þæt hwæðre on oðre wisan þæt gastlice folc is onᵹeotonde under þam ilcan ondᵹete, þe we foresprecende wæron. c1175Lamb. Hom. 11 Þet we maᵹen on þisse gastliche daᵹen ibeten ure sunne. a1300Cursor M. 27837 O couaitise..cums..symoni, als gastli thing to selle or byi. 1390Gower Conf. I. 17 Their gostly staf is then awey, Wherof they shulde her flock defende. 1530Proper Dyaloge (Arb.) 141 Refusynge any labour to do Because they are people gostely. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxii. §13 To settle our hearts in the loue of our ghostly Superiors. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 429 A ghostly Wife [a Bishop's wife], shall be still Madam Lady with me. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxix. 171 And set up..a Ghostly Authority against the Civill. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iii. 93 [The Hebrew religion] afforded fewer means of sustaining ghostly power than perhaps any other system ancient or modern. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 14 Snatching with ghostly hands at sceptres. 1859Tennyson Elaine 1094 Father..bid call the ghostly man Hither, and let me shrive me clean, and die. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. ix. 405 He laid aside his chrism and his rood, his ghostly weapons.
†4. Of the nature of a spirit, incorporeal. Obs.
c1440Boctus (Laud MS. 559) lf. 8 O god of gostely substaunce is. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 28 That ghostly being which enlivens the body of man.
5. Of or pertaining to, or issuing from, a ghost, disembodied spirit, or spectre; resembling a ghost, spectral, shadowy; occas., haunted by ghosts.
c1000Gosp. Nicodemus xxvii, Gastlic hream. a1300Cursor M. 18076 A gastli uoice criand ful fast. a1600Dunbar's Flyting w. Kennedie 175 (MS. Reidpeth) Thy ghaistly luke fleys folkis that pas the by. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 494 The retreating horn Calls them to ghostly halls. 1829Pollok Course T. vii, Thy ghostly shape, O Death, Stood in his avenues of fairest hope. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 28 Duties so suddenly revealed amidst terrors ghostly as well as earthly. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xv. (1862) 237 This ghostly body (commonly called Barebones' Parliament). 1850Lynch Theo. Trin. xi. 212 His visage and form were ghostly. 1864Skeat Uhland's Poems 179 The ghostly voices in silence died. 1865Kingsley Herew. xix, Martin chuckled a ghostly laugh as he [etc.]. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. ii. iii. 104 Ghostly 'tis in vale and hollow, Spectral all that we discover. 1873Longfellow Wayside Inn iii. Interl. i, Forbear to-night your ghostly legends. 1884Tennyson Becket iii. ii, How ghostly sounds that horn in the black wood! 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 156 Ghostly ranges of incredible mountains.
Hence ˈghostlify v. [-fy], to render ghostly; † ghostlihead [-head], spirituality; in quot. quasi-concr., spiritual things; ˈghostlily adv. [-ly2], in a ghostly manner.
c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 282 He louyth no gostly⁓hede, he desyreth no swetnesse of heuenly thynges. 1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 7 Think of finding yourselves ghostlified in surplices. 1857Neale Theod. Phranza (1879) 58 The wind sang more mournfully; the oaks whispered more ghostlily.
▪ II. ghostly, adv. Now rare.|ˈgəʊstlɪ|
[OE. gástlíce, f. gást ghost n. + -líce, -ly2.]
† In a ghostly or spiritual manner or sense; opp. to bodily or carnally; in spirit, as a spirit. Obs. In mod. use rarely: As a ghost.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 34 Þæt haliᵹe husel is gastlice Cristes lichama. c1175Lamb. Hom. 7 Þa wise witega þe beoð nu ouer þe halie chirche and libbed gastliche heore lif. c1200Ormin 985 Hu Cristess þeoww birrþ lakenn Crist Gastlike i gode þæwess. a1300Cursor M. 25054 Þat we gastli wit him ded suld be. 1357Lay Folks Catech. 455 Dedli synnes..gastely sla ilk mannes saule. c1400Mandeville (1839) xii. 136 The Jewes..undirstonde not the Lettre gostly, but bodyly. c1449Pecock Repr. v. xv. 561 Ech man schal fare weel goostli oonli bi hise owne gode deedis. 1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. Prol., The gloryous Trynyte..preserue ghostly and bodyly my foresayd lady. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark vi. 43 We maye lyue ghostlie in heauen. 1548Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 25 So muste we haue also the other for the satisfaction of the soule, or elles we canne not lyue longe gostly. 1619Donne Serm. xiv. 139 The Sword of the Lord..cuts bodily and it cuts ghostly. 1642Rogers Naaman 438 Of Naaman both bodily and ghostly. 1827Pollok Course T. 111, Meagre all, and ghostly thin. |