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Definition of Housling
1. a. Sacramental; as, housling fire.
Definition of Housling
1. Adjective. sacramental ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Housling
1. sacramental [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housling
Literary usage of Housling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"See below. housling; ' The housling fire', ie the sacramental fire, Spenser, FQ i.
12. 37. The Roman marriage was solemnized sacramento ignis et aquae. ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"housling, ». The act of taking the Eucharist. ... housling-BELL, ». The bell
which announced the Eucharist. Houss, ». (1) (Fr.) A short coarse mantle. ..."
3. Registrum Ecclesiae Parochialis: The History of Parish Registers in England by John Southerden Burn (1862)
"In several parishes there remain records of the " housling People," not only the
numbers ... The Chantry Rolls also contain the number of housling people. ..."
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