'To yield up the ghost' definitions:
Definition of 'To yield up the ghost'
From: GCIDE
- Yield \Yield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold; p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, [yogh]elden, [yogh]ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g[aum]lla to be worth, g[aum]lda to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld, Guild.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent. [1913 Webster]
- To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. --Gen. iv. 12. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- [He] makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. --Job xxiv. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc. [1913 Webster]
- And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. [1913 Webster]
- I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for 't. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- God yield thee, and God thank ye. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, {To yield the ghost}, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost, or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to To give up the ghost. [1913 Webster]
- One calmly yields his willing breath. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'To yield up the ghost'
From: GCIDE
- Ghost \Ghost\ (g[=o]st), n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g[=a]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g[=e]st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. [1913 Webster]
- The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. [1913 Webster]
- Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. --Poe. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. [1913 Webster]
- Ghost moth (Zool.), a large European moth ({Hepialus humuli}); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also {great swift}.
- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.
- To give up the ghost or To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. [1913 Webster]
- And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. --Gen. xlix. 33. [1913 Webster]