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Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.

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  1. a. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to apparitions.
  3. adv. Spiritually; mystically.
  4. adj. resembling or characteristic of a phantom
  5. 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. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.
  6. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.
  7. j:100 s resembling or characteristic of a phantom