1. not having received the sacrament of extreme unction before death
Usage: archaic; religious

Examples

• The ghost of Hamlet’s father complained of being murdered unaneled.
• In medieval times, dying unaneled was considered a spiritual tragedy.
• The soldier fell unaneled on the battlefield, far from any priest.
• Shakespeare used ‘unaneled’ to emphasize the horror of sudden death.
• The term unaneled appears in religious texts describing unprepared death.