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unhouseled
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synonyms: uneucharisted, unsmerld ???
tags: [obsolete] [rare]
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Definition:not having taken the eucharist; "uneucharisted""
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Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhous'led, disappointed, unanel'd; No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head: O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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And it will be noted, moreover, that the ghost emphasises the treachery of which he has been the victim, in that he was sent into eternity "unhouseled, unaneled," as though momentary acts can make up for years wasted and misspent.
W. R. Washington Sullivan. Morality as a Religion (1898)
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