verb
- past tense and past participle of 'housel': to administer the Eucharist or Holy Communion to someone, especially at the time of death.
Usage: archaic; religious; chiefly historical
Examples
- The priest houselled the dying parishioner before the end came.
- In medieval times, the sick were houselled as a final sacrament.
- She was houselled by the chaplain in her final hours.
- The old custom of houselling the dying has largely fallen away in modern practice.