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Spectral adj.

Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty. "He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man to spread light."

(Opt.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis.

Spectral lemur. (Zool.) See Tarsius.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spectral" Quotes from Famous Books

... Indeed, a tall spectral figure, black from head to foot, his face carefully hidden under a velvet mask, walked at the end of the corridor, lamp in hand, and stopped at the first step of a staircase which led to the upper floors. The conspirators advanced ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... terrible event occurred several people had seen a creature upon the moor which corresponds with this Baskerville demon, and which could not possibly be any animal known to science. They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, ...

— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle

... of exquisite whiteness silvering the world, making shadows on the water as though it were sunlight and the daytime, giving a spectral look to the endless array of poplar trees on the banks, glittering on the foam of the rapids. The spangling stars made the arch of the sky like some gorgeous chancel in a cathedral as vast as life and time. Like the day which was ended, in which ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... Vale of Tears afar, The spectral camp is fled; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are ...

— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... briskly ahead over a covered bridge and down some break-neck wooden steps, and passed through the wicket out upon the railed-in space, where the cabs and omnibuses should have been, but which was now a blank spectral waste with a white ground-fog lurking ...

— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey

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