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Home Dictionary Name: ghostlyGhost dance
A religious dance of the North American Indians participated in by both sexes and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is through trance and vision to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost dance or Messiah religion which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka the Indian Messiah who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race the dead with the living should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth The religion inculcates peace righteousness and work and holds that in good time without warlike intervention the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States only in the case of the Sioux owing to local causes leading to an outbreak...
Ghostly
Relating to the soul not carnal or secular spiritual as a ghostly confessor...
Chthonian
Designating or pertaining to gods or spirits of the underworld esp relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic names of the deities which are supposed to have been primarily ghosts...
Cordon bleu
a first rate cook or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus or Knights of the Holy Ghost a distinguished order of French knights famous for their good dinners...
Doppelgaumlnger
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart esp an apparitional double of a living person a cowalker...
Eerie
Serving to inspire fear esp a dread of seeing ghosts wild weird as eerie stories...
VerbarFilioque
The Latin for ldquoand from the Sonrdquo equivalent to et filio inserted by the third council of Toledo a d 589 in the clause qui ex Patre procedit who proceedeth from the Father of the Niceno Constantinopolitan Creed a d 381 which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father Hence the doctrine itself not admitted by the Eastern Church...
Ghastly
Like a ghost in appearance deathlike pale pallid dismal...
Ghost
To die to expire...
Ghostlike
Like a ghost ghastly...
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