[UN-1 7. Cf. (in sense 1) MDu. ongeestelijc, MHG. and G. ungeistlich.]
1. Unspiritual.
1526. Tindale, 1 Tim. iv. 7. Cast awaye ungostly and olde wyves fables.
1535. in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden), 78. The mayntenans of the busshope and his ungostly spirituall officers.
1565. Stapleton, Fortr. Faith, 94. Martin Luther the first preacher of this vnghostely ghospell.
1822. T. L. Peacock, Maid Marian, 219. The abbot of Rubygill picked up the … arrow … with a very unghostly malediction on the sender.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVII. ii. IV. 524. Whom the Pompadour has brought with her as henchman, or unghostly counsellor.
2. Not belonging to a ghost.
1888. Daily Tel., 26 Jan. (Cassell’s). A most unghostly-looking pair of boots.
