GOSTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gost”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• GOTs, GTOs, gots, stog, togs

別の表記

• gast, gaast, goost, goste

発音

• IPA: /ɡɔːst/
• 韻: -ɔːst

名詞

gost (plural gostes)

1. a spiritual being; angel, devil, spirit; soul of a dead person
   • 1386, Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:

     This nyght my faderes gost Hath in my slep so sore me tormented.

     This night my father's ghost has in my sore sleep, so tormented me

   • 15th c., “Thomas Indie [Thomas of India]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 346, lines 212–213:

     The gost went to hell a pase / whils the cors lay slayn,
     And broght the sawles from sathanas / for which he suffred payn

     The spirit went to hell while the body lay slain and brought the souls from Satan, for which he suffered pain.

   • 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:

     The dede to areren, yuel gostes to quethen.

     The deed being counteracted, evil spirits being banished.

2. the Holy Ghost
   • Goddes gost is þe geven. — Cleanness, c1400
3. A villain, scoundrel; a devil incarnate; a wicked-looking creature
   • In þat doynge Paternus the monk semeþ a lewed goost. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387
4. The soul of man, spiritual nature
   • Ȝe cursed gostes, goþ in-to þe pyne of helle! — Seint Ieremie telleþ, c1400
   • Lyfe is none quen gost is lede. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500
5. A spiritual force or insight, a gift of prophecy
   • A haþel in þy holde..hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes. — Cleanness, c1400
6. A breath, blowing, wind; God's breath, a spiritual wind; the blowing of storm
   • Gost-wynd nedefull is to recouer monnes gost þat greued is. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500

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派生語

派生した語

• English: ghost
• Scots: ghaist
• Yola: gaast

参照

• “gōst, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

gost

1. alternative form of gorst