Brewer's: Housel

To give or receive the Eucharist. (Anglo-Saxon, huslian, to give the husel 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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