Housel

The word "housel" for the sacrament of the Lord's Supper has gone out of use, though most of us are familiar with the line ❋ Thomas Perkins (1874)

Begone from the housel stand not at the court-yard gate, annoying my masters! otherwise shalt thou die, for thou art a Hellene born. and with them have we no dealings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And there be many of them that housel them every day; and so do we not on this half, albeit that Saint Paul commandeth it, saying, OMNIBUS ❋ Unknown (2004)

And in a ladychapel another taking housel all to his own cheek. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Lewis was staring towards the housel Jessica opened the french window and ran up to him, hugging him with a love that made Lacey's eyes sting with tears. ❋ Jordan, Penny (1991)

"Kelolo will not live in this house any morel He will live in that housel" And she indicated one of the compound quarters about twenty feet removed from his previous residence. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

"Acoluthus he is called, who bears the candle or taper in God's ministries when the Gospel is read, or when the housel is hallowed at the altar: not to dispel, as it were, the dim darkness, but, with that light, to announce bliss, in honour of Christ who is our light." ❋ Various (N/A)

"My dear Everard," she whispered, "Henry is in the housel Besides"Yes, I suppose you must be Everard. ❋ Oppenheim, E. Phillips (1920)

Low-latched in leaf-light housel his too huge godhead. ❋ Unknown (1918)

(Chelsea) forbade the use of chalices or patens of horn quod de sanguine sunt, and the canons passed in the reign of Edgar, under St. Dunstan, enjoined that all chalices in which the "housel is hallowed" should be of molten work (calic gegoten) and that none should be hallowed in a wooden vessel. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The laws of the Northumbrian priests imposed a fine upon all who should "hallow housel" in a wooden chalice and the so-called canons of Ælfric repeated the injunction that chalices of molten material, gold, silver, glass (glaesen) or tin should be used, not horn, and especially not wood. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with masspriest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men's oil to his limbs. ❋ James Joyce (1911)

I pray you let me go upon my way, for there are those whom I would shrive and housel. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1906)

And she said: I pray thee fair father that thou wilt come again on the next Shere-Thursday, and bring with thee the body of our Lord for to housel me, for sith I entered into this desert I was never houseled ne received the holy sacrament, and then I shall come to flom Jordan against thee. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

They did not stay more than a day or two at Speke Hall, for, as Mr. Norreys said, the necessaries of salvation were to be had there already; but they moved on almost at once northwards, always arriving at some central point for Saturdays and Sundays, so that the Catholics round could come in for shrift and housel. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

Milo the Abbot was celebrant, a snuffling boy served; the Count knelt before the housel-cloth haloed by the light of two thin candles. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

A houseling [attachment] is [available]! [Thanks]! ❋ Trioxide24 (2021)