unhouseled

English

Alternative forms

• unhouselled

Etymology

un- +‎ houseled

Adjective

unhouseled (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not having received Eucharist.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], line 77:

     Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled