ghost (gost)

[The his a mod. and unnece ary insertion; prop. gost, "Thow saist nat soth," quod he, "thow sorcere e! With al thi false goost of prophecie." Chaucer , Troilus, v. 1534. Thus God gaf hym a goost of the godhed of heuene, And of his grete grace graunted hym bli e. Piers Plowman (B), ix. 45. Who-so be greued in his goost , gouerne him bettir. ABC of Aristotle (E. E. T. S.), XXXII. 11. But when indeed she found his ghost was gone, then sorrow lost the wit of utterance and grew rageful and mad. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. No knight so rude, I weene, As to doen outrage to a sleeping ghost. ghost land The ghosts thus arising were first described by Quincke, and have been elaborately investigated by Peirce, both theoretically and experimentally. Lord Rayleigh, in Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 438. Specifically-8. In photog., a glint of light cast by the lens on the focusing-gla or on the plate during exposure, in the latter case producing a more or le defined opaque spot. It results usually from the presence of a too strongly illuminated surface or object in or near the field of the lens. Also called flare. You will perceive one, two, three, etc., illuminated circles move acro the field of vision over the picture these are ghosts . Silver Sunbeam , p. 450. Dirck's ghost, an optical illusion produced for popular entertainments, by which a figure strongly illuminated but concealed from the audience reflected in a large sheet of unsilvered plate-gla , so as to produce a spectral effect.Holy Ghost [ME. holy gost, holie gost, hali gast, often as one word, holigost, etc., God the fader, God the sone, God holigoste of bot he. Piers Plowman (B), x. 239. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them Mat. xxviii. 19. in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Holy-Ghost plant. Same as dove - plant . - Ma of the Holy Ghost. See ma l. - Order of the Holy Ghost. (a) (Often called by the French name Saint Esprit.) The leading order of the later French monarchy, founded by King Henry III. of France in 1578, replacing the Order of St. Michael. The king was the grand master, and there were 100 members, not including foreigners. The members were required to adhere to the Roman Catholic Church and to be of a high grade of nobility. The decoration was a gold cro attached to a blue ribbon, and the emblems were a dove and an image of St. Michael. The order has been in abeyance since the revolution of 1830. (b) An order founded at Montpellier, France, about the end of the twelfth century, and united to the Order of St. Lazarus by Pope Clement XIII. (c) A Neapolitan order. See Order of the Knot, under knot1. - The ghost walks, the salary is paid. [Actors' slang.] - To give or yield up the ghost, to yield up the breath or spirit; die; expire. Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? Job xiv. 10. Often did I strive To yield the ghost : but still the envious flood Stopt in my soul, and would not let it forth. Shak., Rich. III., i. 4. Syn. Ghost , Shade, Apparition , Specter , Phantom , Phantasm. Ghost is the old word for the disembodied spirit, especially as appearing to man: as, the ghost of Hamlet's father; the ghost of Banquo. Shade is a soft and poetic word for ghost : as, the shade of Creusa appeared to Æneas. An apparition is a ghost as appearing to sight, perhaps suddenly or unexpectedly; it may also be a fancied appearance, while a ghost is supposed to be real: as, Jupiter made a cloud into an apparition of Juno; Macbeth saw an apparition of a dagger; the witches showed him an apparition of a crowned child. A specter is an alarming horrifying preternatural personal appearance, hav But I be que the the servyce of my goost To you aboven every creature, Syn that my lyf ne may no lenger dure. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1910. Is not that a Giant before our Door? or a Ghost of some body slain in the late Battell? Dryden, A mph i try on, ii.1. How many children, and how many men, are afraid of ghosts, who are not afraid of God! Macaulay, Dante. The Fetishism, Ancestor-worship, and Demonology of primitive savages, are all, I believe, different manners of expre ion of their belief in ghosts, and of the anthropоmorphic interpretation of out-of-the-way events, which is its concomitant. Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 163. 3. A spirit; a demon. Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead? He, nor that affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors, of my silence cannot boast. Shak., Sonnets, lxxxvi. 4. A spirit in general; an unearthly specter or apparition. "Hateful divorce of love," - thus chides she Death"Grim-grinning ghost." Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 933. 5t. A dead body. [Rare.] See, how the blood is settled in his face! Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost , Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodle . more than an apparition nece arily has. A phantom has an apparent, not a real, existence; it differs from a phan tasm in emphasizing the unreality simply and in representing a single object, while phantasm emphasizes the deception put upon the mind, and may include more than one object. Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round, And grisly spectres , which the fiend had raised To tempt the Son of God with terrours dire. Milton , P. R., iv. 422. IMG:content-2272.png:[blocks in formation] 6. A mere shadow or semblance. When the kings were driven out from ancient Rome, there was still a king kept up in name to perform the grand ceremonial offices which no one but a person having the name "king" g" or "Rex" could discharge. The II, in trans . To give up the ghost; die; expire. Euryalus, taking leave of Lucretia, precipitated her into such a love-fit that within a few hours she ghosted . Sir P. Sidney. tionaries religious or secular.. the deceased Roman kingdom, just as the Pope is the ghost (not a shadow or manes) of the deceased Roman Empire. A. P. Stanley, E ays on Eccles. Subjects, p. 201. Nought followed but the ghost of dead delight. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 361. It was well understood that in Moscow the accused did not stand "a ghost of a chance." The Century , XXXVI. 87. 7. In optics , a spot of light or secondary image caused by a defect of the instrument, generally by reflections from the lenses. In the mean time that she, The said Ghoste , or Ghost, as the matter may be, From impediment, hindrance, and let shall be free To sleep in her grave. Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 233. ghost-fish (gōst'fish), n. A whitish variety of Crypt acanth odes maculatus. See wrymouth . ghost land (gōst'land), n. The region of spirits or of the supernatural. Get out of ghost land. Academy , April 7, 1888, p. 296. ghost le