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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Haly gast(e, gaist, n. Also: haly gaast, ghaist, hali(e gast, gaist, haligast, -gaast, -gaist, and haly(e goost, ghoist, halie goste; holie gaist. [Northern ME. haly gast, haligast, OE. háliᵹ (se hálᵹa) gást.] The Holy Ghost.(a) a1400 Leg. S. ii. 565.
He Was tawcht wele be the hali gast Ib. xxxvi. 61.
The haly gaste sal be hym in 1405 Douglas Corr. 65.
Hee almychty prynce, the Haly Gast yow haff in his yhemsall euermar c1420 Wynt. v. 2122.
He … borne wes of the madyn chast, Consayvyd throuch the Haly Gast [C. Haligast] c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 76/24.
I haue nocht trowit in the haly gast, the thrid person in diuinite c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. i. 18.
Scho was fundin hauyng of the Haligast in wambe(b) 1405 D. Fleming Let. Henry IV MS. (Cott. Vesp. F. VIII) in Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 58.
The haly gaist gouerne & kepe aylestandly in honour my lege lord c1420 Ratis R. 649.
The sevyne giftis of the haly gaist c1475 Wall. v. 462.
He him betuk on to the haly Gaist a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 128.
The Haly Gaist schane in hir tabernakill 1543 Crim. Trials I. i. 330.
With ane displayit ansenȝe, quhilk thai call the Haly Gaist 1569 Acts Jas. VI (1597) 22/8.
Wrocht be operatioun of the haly Ghaist 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV. 285 b.
I … committis my saule to god omnipotent, fader, sone & halie gaist 1603 Philotus cxxxii.
Be vertew of the halie Ghaist Depairt out of myne hous in haist

b. Partly anglicised in halie goste, etc., holie gaist.(a) 1588 King Cat. 2.
Man is regenerat off water and the halie goste 1590 Edinb. Test. XXI. 232.
Abyding the will & mercie of father, sone and haly ghoist 1623 Crim. Trials II. 537.
In the name of the Father, Sone and Halye Goost(b) a1570-86 (Dunb.) Maitl. F. cxiv. 30.
The fader, the sone, the holie gaist 1616 Dalyell Darker Superst. 118.
In the name of the Father, Sone and the Holie Gaist