Meanings
present singular third person beghosts · participle present beghosting · participle past beghosted · past beghosted
- transitiveTo endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.
Was Hamlet's armour beghosted too?
1910, Charles Francis Keary, The pursuit of reason3 more examples
For two centuries or more Littlecote, which is near Hungerford, was owned by the Darrell family, and it was they who finally beghosted not only the house but also the neighbourhood — even as far as the Hungerford to Salisbury road.
1988, John Canning, 50 Great Ghost StoriesLater she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had.
1989, Ronald Frame, Penelope's hat[…] and the publication of the very interesting tale from which it is taken, we have been so beghosted both in prose and verse, […]
2005, Charles Lloyd, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin novels: Edmund Oliver (1798)
Origin
From be- + ghost. Compare bespirit, beghast.
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