adjective
- not having received the Eucharist or Holy Communion before death
Usage: archaic; religious
Examples
- The dying man was unhouseled, having no priest to administer last rites.
- In Hamlet, the ghost laments being killed unhouseled and unprepared for death.
- Medieval Christians feared dying unhouseled without spiritual preparation.
- The soldier died unhouseled on the battlefield, far from any church.
- She worried her grandfather had passed away unhouseled and unconfessed.