ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not having had the Eucharist administered.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 377/2. Yet thynketh Tyndall that … the people were as good vnhowseled as howseled.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. v. 77. Cut off euen in the Blossomes of my Sinne, Vnhouzzled, disappointed, vnnaneld.
1819. Scott, Ivanhoe, xxx. Me … they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled.
1826. Southey, Vind. Eccl. Angl., 500. He died, unhouselled, in his sins.
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 334. The articulate plaint of some unhouseled spirit moaning for admission.
