Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not having received the Eucharist. Used of a dead or dying person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not having received the sacrament.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not having received the sacrament.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not having taken the
housel .
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Examples
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The word "unhouseled" in this means that he died without receiving the sacred elements before his death.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Thomas Perkins 1874
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Me, the heir of their founder — me, whom their foundation binds them to pray for — me — ungrateful villains as they are! — they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled! —
Ivanhoe 2004
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And it will be noted, moreover, that the ghost emphasises the treachery of which he has been the victim, in that he was sent into eternity "unhouseled, unaneled," as though momentary acts can make up for years wasted and misspent.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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Alas! what multitudes of real dwarfs go out every day, 'unhouseled,' into that searching light of eternity.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands.
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Still, he had to accept it, or go unhouseled again.
Miss Mapp 1903
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But the one thing she could not bear was that either Frenchmen or Englishmen should die unconfessed, "unhouseled, disappointed, unannealed."
Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896
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And her eyes get moist, for she means it more or less; but next day she catches a cold and refuses food, saying that all her bones ache and her head is revolving; then the horror of dying among strangers, "unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled," proves too much for the faithful creature, and she disappears without notice, leaving her darling and its mother to look out for another Ayah.
Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880
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It was Voltaire's last triumph; four days later, unshriven and unhouseled, he expired.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878
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But the one thing she could not bear was that either Frenchmen or Englishmen should die unconfessed, "unhouseled, disappointed, unannealed."
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