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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of housel.

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Examples

  • And when they had said so, upon the gracious trust of God and of them, we let sing mass, and made every man to be shriven and houseled.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And this same day her father sent to me for to be confessed and houseled; but such shame had never man as I had this day with the three brethren, but the earl bade me suffer, for he said they should not long endure, for three servants of Our Lord should destroy them, and now it is brought to an end.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • So when he was houseled and anealed, and had all that a Christian man ought to have, he prayed the Bishop that his fellows might bear his body to Joyous Gard.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • ¶ A prayer full profytable to them that shal saye masse/& here masse/or to them that shall be houseled & comunyed/and besyde for all other that ben on lyue or deed.

    A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

  • So when he was houseled and eneled, and had all that a Christian man ought to have, he prayed the bishop that his fellows might bear his body unto Joyous Gard.

    Northumberland Yesterday and To-day 1908

  • 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.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • 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.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • And after this he said the mass, and houseled and communed the people: and after that the mass was finished he bade and did do make a pit or a sepulture tofore the altar; and after that he had taken his leave and commended the people to God, he descended down into the pit or sepulture tofore the altar, and held up his hands to heaven and said: Sweet

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • There was an emperor in his time named Philip, which was much sinful, and came boldly in the vigil of Easter in to the church for to be houseled and communed, whom the pope drove away and denied to him the communion, until he had gone and shriven him of his sins, and let him stand among the seculars.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

  • And here it is to wit that for this that our Lord said to his disciples: Take ye all of this bread and eat it, it is mine own body, therefore in this manner every one was wont in time past to be houseled every day.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

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