gastlic

• gǣstlīċ

From gāst +‎ -līċ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːst.liːt͡ʃ/

gāstlīċ

1. spiritual
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Onġietan sċeal glēaw hæle · hū gǣstlīċ bið,
     þonne ealle þisse worulde wela · wēste stondeð;

     A wise man must understand how spiritual it is
     when all wealth of this world stands empty;

2. holy, sacred

• Middle English: gastliche, gastly, gostly
  • English: ghostly
  • Scots: gaistly, ghaistly

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “gástlíc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.