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Definition: HOUSEL

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The eucharist.[Websters].
Verb 1. To administer the eucharist to.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: houseling, houseled, housels, houseler, houselers, houselingly and houseledly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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"Housel" is a common misspelling or typo for: housels.

Date "Housel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Specialty Definition: HOUSEL

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] houz'l. The eucharist; the sacred bread.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Literature 1: "Children were christened, and men houseled and assoyled through all the land, except such as were in the bill of excommunication by name expressed." - Holinshed: Chronicle.
2: Housel To give or receive the Eucharist. (Anglo-Saxon, huslian, to give the husel or host.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Noun] (archaic) the Eucharist. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: HOUSEL

Housel

Housel was, until the Reformation, the name of the Eucharist in the English language. The meaning of the word is "sacrifice," and hunsl appears in the Ulfilas Gothic version of Matthew 9:13: "I will have mercy and not sacrifice."

The word's etymology is uncertain. The New English Dictionary connects it with a Teutonic stem meaning "holy," from which is derived the Lithuanian szweñtas, and Latvian swéts. Skeat points a connection with a root meaning "to kill," which may connect it with Greek kaínein.

References

  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Housel". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: HOUSEL

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Housel 3     Housel 3

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"housel" is a common misspelling or typo for: housels.

Synonyms: housel
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 communion, Eucharist.
Consider also: liturgy, sacrament, thanksgiving, association, communication, denomination, intercourse, appeal, entreaty, petition, prayer, request.

Other

 Holy Communion, Last Supper.

Expression

 the Eucharist.
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Computed Synonyms: housel

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   3.0092   housel     communion     community, association, fellowship, partnership, denomination   
 2   2.0091   housel     Eucharist     sacrament, communion, oblation, the Eucharist, thanksgiving   
 3   1.1089   housel     participial     participle, proverbial, adverbial, adjectival, ordinance   
 4   1.0093   housel     mystery     secret, riddle, enigma, puzzle, arcanum   
 5   1.0091   housel     oblation     offering, sacrifice, victim, immolation, donation   
 6   1.0091   housel     sacrament     symbol, sign, token, emblem, vow   
 7   1.0090   housel     ordinance     decree, order, regulation, enactment, statute   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: HOUSEL

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Balgarski причастие (communion, Eucharist, oblation, ordinance, participle), причестяване (housel). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) prichastie (communion, Eucharist, oblation, ordinance, participle), prichestyavane (housel). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian svátost oltářní (Eucharist, mystery, housel, mysteries), podávání svátosti oltářní (housel), přijímání svátosti oltářní (housel). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian причастие (communion, Eucharist, oblation, ordinance, participle), причестяване (housel). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) prichastie (communion, Eucharist, oblation, ordinance, participle), prichestyavane (housel). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina svátost oltářní (Eucharist, mystery, housel, mysteries), podávání svátosti oltářní (housel), přijímání svátosti oltářní (housel). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech svátost oltářní (Eucharist, mystery, housel, mysteries), podávání svátosti oltářní (housel), přijímání svátosti oltářní (housel). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Dari ايين عشاء رباني (communion, housel), آيين عشای ربانی (housel), ايين عشاء ربانى (communion, housel). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Parsi ايين عشاء رباني (communion, housel), آيين عشای ربانی (housel), ايين عشاء ربانى (communion, housel). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian ايين عشاء رباني (communion, housel), آيين عشای ربانی (housel), ايين عشاء ربانى (communion, housel). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Persian (Farsi) ايين عشاء رباني (communion, housel), آيين عشای ربانی (housel), ايين عشاء ربانى (communion, housel). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, housel. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: HOUSEL

Language Translations for “housel” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag hathagousathagel (housel). Additional references: Athag, housel. (volunteer)
Double Dutch hagousagel (housel). Additional references: Double Dutch, housel. (volunteer)
Leet }{0<5£# (housel). Additional references: Leet, housel. (volunteer)
Oppish hopousopel (housel). Additional references: Oppish, housel. (volunteer)
Pig Latin ouselhay (housel). Additional references: Pig Latin, housel. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi hubousubel (housel). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, housel. (volunteer)
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