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GHOST (a word See also: person considered as appearing in some visible or sensible See also: form to the living (see See also: APPARITIONS; PSYCHICAL RESEARCH, "Phantasms of the Dead"; See also: SPIRITUALISM)
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In the earlier and wider sense of spirit in general, or of the principle of See also: life, the word is practically obsolete
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The language of the Authorized Version of the See also: Bible, however, has preserved the phrase " to give up the ghost, still sometimes used of dying
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The Spirit of See also: God, too, the third person of the Trinity, is still called, not in the technical language of See also: theology only, the See also: Holy Ghost
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The adjective " ghostly " is still occasionally used for " spiritual " (cf. the Ger. geistlich) as contrasted with " bodily," especially in such combinations as " ghostly counsel," " ghostly comfort." We may even speak of a " ghostly adviser," though not without a touch of affectation; on the other See also: hand, the phrase
" ghostly See also: man " for a clergyman (cf. the Ger
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Geistlicher) is an archaism the use of which could only be justified by poetic licence, as in See also: Tennyson's Elaine (1(394)
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The word " ghost," from the shadowy and unsubstantial quality attributed to the apparitions of the dead, has come also to be commonly used to emphasize the want of force or substance generally, in such phrases as " not the ghost of a chance," " not the ghost of an idea." It is also applied to those See also: literary and See also: artistic " hacks " who are paid to do See also: work for which others get the See also: credit
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