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unhouseled: not having received Eucharist or Last Rites before death.

Housel is listed by Webster as a pre-12th century word for 'to administer communion to'. The prefix 'un' is frequently used by Shakespeare - as with 'unpregnant', for dramatic purposes

From the ghost in Hamlet:

Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand

Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:

Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,

Unhous'led, disappointed, unanel'd;

No reck'ning made, but sent to my account

With all my imperfections on my head:

O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!

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