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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
GHOST, n. [See Ghastly.]
To give up the ghost, is to die; to yield up the breath or spirit; to expire.
The Holy Ghost, is the third person in the adorable Trinity.
GHOST, v.i. To die; to expire.
GHOST, v.t. To haunt with an apparition.
1913 Definition
The spirit; the soul of man.
[Obs.]
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit
of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition;
a specter.
The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, Any faint shadowy semblance; an
unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost
of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe. A false image formed in a telescope by
reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33. To die; to
expire.
[Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. To appear to or haunt
in the form of an apparition.
[Obs.] Shak. | ||||||||
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