Dictionary entry

Ghostly

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ghost″ly, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gāstlic. 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

One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.