Definition of "housel" [hou•sel]

• The Eucharist. (noun)
• To administer the Eucharist to. (verb-transitive)

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• "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"
• "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."
• "For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week."