gostly

Middle English

Alternative forms

• goostly, goostli, gostli, gostlich, gostliche, gosteli, gosteliche, gostili, goistli, gosslich, gastli, gastlike

Etymology

From Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”).

Adjective

gostly

1. Belonging to or consisting of spirit, not matter; spiritual.

Descendants

• English: ghostly; ghastly (by conflation)

References

• “gōstlī (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.