Meaning of gastly | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of ghastly.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“[E]uen in ſléepe ſome ſpice of imagined malice gnaweth him, combering his ſoule with ſpirites of miſchiefe, making his bodie gaſtly and his minde afrighted with trouble, and appearing vnto men as it were with a pernicious ſpirite, and pouring out of poiſõ.”

“She tolde him, that there was lately buryed (néere to the place where ſhe was honoured) a ſinfull perſon, whiche ſo offended her eye with his gaſtly grinning, that vnles he were remoued, ſhe could not, but (to the great griefe of good people) withdꝛawe her ſelfe from that place, and ceaſſe her wonted miraculous woꝛking amongſt them.”

“Gaſtly amazement, with vpſtarted haire, / Shall hurry on before, and vſher vs, / Whil’ſt trumpets clamour, with a ſound of death.”

“In this their Extaſie, the lookers on inceſſantly warble out ſoft trembling Muſique, till ſuch time as the boyes ariſe, who anon (as from a diuine trance) raiſe themſelues and lie downe againe ſome what more leaſurely, then ſuddenly in great haſt and feare with gaſtly amazed lookes, vibrate a readie ſword againſt the beholders.”

“From the Subſtantive Ghoſt by the Addition of ly, comes the Word Ghoſtly, that is, Spiritual, p. 172. l. 9. which is now alſo more frequently uſed. Hence alſo comes gaſtly, terrible, frightfull, like a Ghoſt, or like a dead Corps; for a gaſtly Look is chiefly ſaid of the Countenance of a dying Perſon.”

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