unhouseled
/ʌnˈhaʊz(ə)ld
/adjective archaic
Not having received the Eucharist: he feared the child would die unhouseled...
- His statement (as a ghost) of having died unhouseled and unaneled shows him to have been a Catholic.
- I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands.
- And, an example of the latter is from Scott's Ivanhoe, ‘Me… they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled.’
Origin
Mid 16th century: from un-1 'not' + the past participle of obsolete housel 'offer the Eucharist to', from housel 'Eucharist'.