| 释义 |
ghostship|ˈgəʊstʃɪp|
[f. ghost n. + -ship.]
The condition or quality of being a ghost. Also humorously, the personality of a ghost.
1826J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XX. 107, I became somewhat too much hand-in-glove with his ghostship. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 297 Neither Kate nor her father or mother had even seen the spectre, although such near neighbours to his ghostship. 1855C. M. Yonge Lances of Lynwood viii. (1864) 117 You believed in our ghostship as fully as any of them. 1891Daily News 10 Aug. 4/7 First the worship of the ancestral ghost, simply as a ghost; next the development of his ghostship into godship. |