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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
housel .
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Examples
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'houselled' at the Mass for the dead early the next morning, before hastening on the southern journey.
The Caged Lion Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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And as she was confessed and houselled then she died.
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Then Perceval rode forward till it was night; but never could he get sight of castle or knight's hold or hermit's cell where he could be houselled for the night.
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert
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On the Sunday in the morning the French king, who had great desire to fight with the Englishmen, heard his mass in his pavilion and was houselled, and his four sons with him.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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ON the Sunday in the morning the French king, who had great desire to fight with the Englishmen, heard his mass in his pavilion and was houselled, and four sons with him.
The Battle of Poitiers. Of the Order of the Frenchmen before the Battle of Poitiers 1909
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Thereat his voice failed him indeed, and he lay still; but he died not, till presently the priest came to him, and, as he might, houselled him: then he departed.
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Thereafter the priest houselled the King, and he received his Creator, and a little while after his soul departed.
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He made his will, a generous and charitable one, confessed his sins, was houselled and anhealed, and died on Passion Tuesday, April 6th.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886
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Henry, with evil sons and failing health, makes a sad peace in a fearful storm, learns that son John too has betrayed him, curses his day and his sons, and refuses to withdraw his curse, dies at Chinon before the altar, houselled and anhealed, on the 6th of July, 1189.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886
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Thereat his voice failed him indeed, and he lay still; but he died not, till presently the priest came to him, and, as he might, houselled him: then he departed.
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair William Morris 1865
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