unhouseled

American  

[uhn-hou-zuhld] / ʌnˈhaʊ zəld /

adjective

Archaic.

1. not having received the Eucharist.

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unhouseled British  

/ ʌnˈhaʊzəld /

adjective

1. archaic not having received the Eucharist

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Etymology

Origin of unhouseled

First recorded in 1525–35; un- ¹ + housel + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Unbodied presences, the packed Pollution and remorse of Time, Slipped from oblivion reenact The horrors of unhouseled crime, Some men would quell the thing with prayer Whose sightless footsteps pad the floor, Whose fearful trespass mounts the stair Or bursts the locked forbidden door.

From Slate

In a past century three bells had been towered there: consecrated and named after three Saints, to knell for souls that passed, unconfessed, unhouseled, in that place of wrecks; to be potent against the dominion of powers darker than death, too regnant there.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, he had to accept it, or go unhouseled again.

From Project Gutenberg

It was Voltaire's last triumph; four days later, unshriven and unhouseled, he expired.

From Project Gutenberg

What ghosts like wandering breath Shudder and wail unhouseled on the plain, Shreds of Achaian honour?

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