Ghost"ly, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gastlic. 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.

 

© Webster 1913.


Ghost"ly, adv.

Spiritually; mystically.

Chaucer.

 

© Webster 1913.

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