unhouseled

[ uhn-hou-zuhld ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. not having received the Eucharist.

unhouseled

/ ʌnˈhaʊzəld /

adjective

1. archaic.
   not having received the Eucharist

Word History and Origins

Origin of unhouseled¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of unhouseled¹

C16: from un- + obsolete housel to administer the sacrament, from Old English hūsl (n), hūslian (vb), of unknown origin

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

The sun of that Sabbath morning rose in blood, and before he had advanced an hour on his course, a multitude of souls "unhouseled, unanneled," had passed to the stillness of eternity.

From Project Gutenberg

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