housel

• "For the housel and the chrism, they be mercies of man. —  The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time
• The word "housel" for the sacrament of the Lord's Supper has gone out of use, though most of us are familiar with the line Unhouseled_, unanointed, unanelled in which the ghost of Hamlet's father describes the circumstances of his death. —  Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
• Spenser seems here to have in mind, not the Christian housel or Eucharist, but the Roman marriage rites with their symbolic fire and water 347. —  Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
• Milo the Abbot was celebrant, a snuffling boy served; the Count knelt before the housel-cloth haloed by the light of two thin candles. —  The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
• Wrapt in her grief, for housel or for shrift, —  Idylls of the King

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