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Definition of Houselled
1. housel [v] - See also: housel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houselled
Literary usage of Houselled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"... and when spasms and paroxysms came on they cupped her, and then gave her up
and left her to die. " She was houselled, and the King to comfort her was ..."
2. History of England from the fall of Wolsey (to the defeat of the Spanish by James Anthony Froude (1863)
"... and when spasms and paroxysms came on they cupped her, and then gave her up
and left her to die. ' She was houselled, and the King to comfort her was ..."
3. An Answer in Defense of the Truth Against the Apology of Private Mass by Thomas Cooper, William Goode (1850)
"... be houselled thereat, and be always sure to have their viaticum, as it is
termed in the old canons, that is to say, their voyage-provision. ..."
4. The North-English Homily Collection: A Study of the Manuscript Relations and by Gordon Hall Gerould (1902)
"Again he told his tale, was houselled, and gave up the ghost. This legend which
has been widely narrated in the course of many centuries appears to come ..."
5. Notitia Eucharistica: A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical by William Edward Scudamore (1876)
"Wiclif,3 1360, says,—" When we shall be houselled, ye bring to us the dry Flesh,
and let the Blood be away; for ye give us after the Bread wine and water, ..."
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