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So when he was houseled and anealed, and had all that a Christian man ought to have, he prayed the Bishop that his fellows might bear his body to Joyous Gard.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

So when he was houseled and eneled, and had all that a Christian man ought to have, he prayed the bishop that his fellows might bear his body unto Joyous Gard.

From Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Terry, Jean F. (Jean Finlay)

Yet, ere the last string had twanged, he would be down on his four bones among the stricken, and have them all houseled and shriven, as quick as shelling peas.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

To be houseled: to receive the holy sacrament; from Anglo- Saxon, "husel;" Latin, "hostia," or "hostiola," the host.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

I make my vow to God and all the saints I will not rest, nor houseled be, nor shriven, Until our realm be free from Danish foe!

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)