housel
Americannoun
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the Eucharist.
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the act of administering or receiving the Eucharist.
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of housel
First recorded before 900; Middle English; (noun) Old English hūsl “the Eucharist,” probably originally, “offering”; cognate with Old Norse hūsl, Gothic hunsl “sacrifice, offering”
Example Sentences
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For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
He'll wed ye and housel ye for a couple of roses.
From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett
We were wedded out of hand by the priest that had been sent for to housel him, and in our true names.
From The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Low-latched in leaf-light housel his too huge godhead.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
This has purloined the wages of the labourer; it has reduced him by degrees to housel with the spider and the bat, and to feed with the pig.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
The holy priest Justin celebrated mass to and houseled them all.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
I make my vow to God and all the saints I will not rest, nor houseled be, nor shriven, Until our realm be free from Danish foe!
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
After this Hippolytus returned to his home, and with God's peace kissed his family, and houseled them all.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
To be houseled: to receive the holy sacrament; from Anglo- Saxon, "husel;" Latin, "hostia," or "hostiola," the host.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
Yet, ere the last string had twanged, he would be down on his four bones among the stricken, and have them all houseled and shriven, as quick as shelling peas.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The use of the "houseling linen" dates back to very early times.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings by Rev. Thomas Perkins
They are usually covered with white wrappings, which, to the casual visitor, have the appearance of decorators' dust-cloths, but are really "houseling linen."
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
Up to 1852 there was a rail on the top step, at the entrance of the presbytery, on which the houseling linen hung.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings by Rev. Thomas Perkins
He made his will, a generous and charitable one, confessed his sins, was houselled and anhealed, and died on Passion Tuesday, April 6th.
From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson
Having spoken these words, he was houselled of the priest, and died in our Lord; and his son gave him fitting burial, and paid him all such service as is meetly required for the dead.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
Then Perceval rode forward till it was night; but never could he get sight of castle or knight's hold or hermit's cell where he could be houselled for the night.
From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert
Thereat his voice failed him indeed, and he lay still; but he died not, till presently the priest came to him, and, as he might, houselled him: then he departed.
From Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris
And as she was confessed and houselled then she died.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
The three ministers had communicated by now; and there was a rustle and clatter of feet as the empty seats in front, hung with houselling cloths, began to be filled.
From By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson
The King sent for one of his own chaplains that made the squire confess and do his houselling right well.
From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans
Jean withdrew from the houselling cloth, wondering to be just the same as ever and already disillusioned.
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France
So, also, we find the term houselling cloth, meaning a large cloth spread before the people while receiving.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
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