Definition of Housil
Hou"sel (?), n. [OE. housel,
husel, AS. hūsel; akin to Icel.
hūsl, Goth. hunsl a sacrifice.] The
eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.
Hou"sel, v. t. [AS.
hūslian.] To administer the eucharist to.
[Archaic] Chaucer.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (archaic) the Eucharist
*1922: She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with mass-priest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men's oil to his limbs. — James Joyce, Ulysses
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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