unhouseledadj.
Not having had the Eucharist administered.
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unhouseled1532
unreceiving1566
uncommunicant1600
non-communicating1691
non-communicant1866
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 377/2 Yet thynketh Tyndall that..the people were as good vnhowseled as howseled.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 77 Cut off euen in the blossomes of my sinne, Vnhuzled [1623 Vnhouzzled], disappointed, vnanueld. View more context for this quotation
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xvi. 317 Me..they suffer to die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled!
1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 500 He died, unhouselled, in his sins.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 334 The articulate plaint of some unhouseled spirit moaning for admission.
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