Noun: gost
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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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) [1386, Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:]
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The gost went to hell a pase / whils the cors lay slayn,
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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.) [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:]
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The dede to areren, yuel gostes to quethen. (The deed being counteracted, evil spirits being banished.) [1525, English Conquest of Ireland:]
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Goddes gost is þe geven. — Cleanness, c1400
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In þat doynge Paternus the monk semeþ a lewed goost. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387
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Ȝe cursed gostes, goþ in-to þe pyne of helle! — Seint Ieremie telleþ, c1400
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Lyfe is none quen gost is lede. (A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500)
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A haþel in þy holde..hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes. — Cleanness, c1400
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Gost-wynd nedefull is to recouer monnes gost þat greued is. (A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500)
Nouns inflected like gost
wheston,
scarth,
scough,
schour,
scherd,
scheld,
schalk,
schaft,
smythy,
bombard,
bochous,
hereditament,
syngyng,
peretre,
bastard,
conquest,
comaundour,
patroun,
pacient,
playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English gāst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.
Verbs referencing "gost"
English Nouns
ghost.
Translations