Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section V. Religious Affections
1. Superhuman Beings and Regions
980a. Specter.
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| NOUN: | SPECTER or spectre, ghost, revenant, apparition, spirit, sprite, shade, shadow, wraith, spook [now humorous], phantom, phantasm, fantasm [rare], idolum; materialization [Spiritualism], ectoplasmic manifestation; double, etheric body, etheric self, aura, auric egg, astral body, mayavi rupa, ego [all Theos. and Occultism]; vision, theophany.
banshee, White Lady, the White Ladies of Normandy, the White Lady of Avenel [Scott]; lemures, larva or larve [Roman relig.].
WILL-O’-THE-WISP, Friar’s lantern [See Luminary].
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| ADJECTIVE: | SPECTRAL, ghostly, ghostlike, spiritual, wraithlike, weird, uncanny, eerie or eery, spooky or spookish [colloq.], haunted; unearthly, supernatural.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Is not this something more than fantasy!—Hamlet
- But soft! behold! lo! where it comes again.—Paradise Lost
- Of calling shapes, and beck’ning shadows dire.—Milton
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