Definition of Housel

1. n. The eucharist.

2. v. t. To administer the eucharist to.

Definition of Housel

1. Noun. (archaic) the Eucharist ¹

2. Verb. (transitive archaic) To administer the Eucharist to. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive rare) To prepare for a journey. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Housel

1. to administer the Eucharist to [v -SELED, -SELING, -SELS or -SELLED, -SELLING, -SELS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Housel

householders
households
househunting
househusband
househusbands
housekeep
housekeeper
housekeepers
housekeeping
housekeeping gene
housekeeping genes
housekeeping protein
housekeepings
housekeeps
housekept
housel (current term)
houseled
houseleek
houseleeks
houseless
houselessness
houselessnesses
houselights
houselike
houseline
houselines
houseling
houselled
houselling
housels

Literary usage of Housel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"To enter a house, to go home. Follow this fair lady wherever she doth go, And where she houses, come and let me know. housel. The eucharist, or sacrament of ..."

2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... good part of this county of Wiltshire, saw a good housel of Alexander Popham's,2 and another of my Lord Craven's,31 think, ..."

3. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England: Comprising Laws Enacted Under the ...by Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe by Great Britain, Benjamin Thorpe (1840)
"That the Greeks go to housel every Sunday, Th. P. XLIV. 1. ; Ecg. C. 35. ... That a woman may go to housel before childbirth, Ecg. C. 31. ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on Abstracts and Examinations of Title to Real Property by George William Warvelle (1892)
"housel, 17 Johns. 281; 'Indeed, this term when used in Wheaton v. Andress, 28 Wend, a will, is generally construed to 452; Hunt v. Hunt, 4 Gray (Mass. ..."

5. The Church Cyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1883)
"... which is due to the true GOD." (Council of Trent, Session xiii., De Euch. cap. v.) housel. The Holy Communion. ..."

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