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Definition of Houseled
1. housel [v] - See also: housel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houseled
Literary usage of Houseled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"The king and queen were both houseled, with one host divided between them.
(Hall's Chron.) When the queen takes her chamber, she must be brought into the ..."
2. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1857)
"When the queen takes her chamber, she must be brought into the chapel or church
there to be houseled (temp. Henry VII.) Chaucer says — Man and wife, ..."
3. Catholicon anglicum: an English-Latin wordbook, dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1881)
"To here holy )>e masse & to be houseled after. ... Chaucer says once a year at
least—' and certes ones a yere at the leste it is lawful to be houseled, ..."
4. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"And if he die there, at least being confessed and houseled at the beginning ...
As oft as he shall be confessed and houseled, making his prayers by word or ..."
5. The Arthurian Tales: The Greatest of Romances which Recount the Noble and by Thomas Malory, Ernest Rhys (1906)
"Was called. HOLT.—A wooded hill ; sometimes a cliff. houseled—To be houseled was
to receive the sacrament. HUSTLE.—Dash. ..."
6. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"And when shee was confessed and houseled,2 then she died. Then the king and all
the court made great ... 2 houseled.—Received the sacrament; communicated. ..."
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