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Definition of Hanselled
1. hansel [v] - See also: hansel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hanselled
Literary usage of Hanselled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller (1837)
"Query, on whom the Law was first hanselled. A loud parliament is always attended
with a silent Convocation ; as here it came to pass. ..."
2. Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments with Critical Notes, Commentary, and by Sophocles (1913)
"... of weapons most accursed, Deep under earth, consigned to Night and Hell, Where
never eye of man may see it more ; For since the day I hanselled it, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"... of Proverbs: “ He that invented the Maiden first hanselled it.” Such, however,
is not the fact, as I learn from an interesting paper on “ The Maiden, ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1874)
"... a lamb walled in under the altar in Denmark to make the church stand fast,
and the churchyard in like manner hanselled by burying a live horse first. ..."
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