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Housel

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To give or receive the Eucharist. (Anglo-Saxon, huslian, to give the huʹsel or host.)

Children were christened, and men houseled and assoyled through all the land, except such as were in the bill of excommunication by name expressed.”—Holinshed: Chronicle.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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House of God (The)
House that Jack Built (The)
Household Gods
Household Troops
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Houyhnhnms (whinhims)
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