Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—U

Unaneled

(3 syl.). Unanointed; without extreme unction. (Saxon oell means “oil,” and an-oell to “anoint with oil.”)

“Unhouseled [without the last sacrament], disappointed, unaneled.”

Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 5.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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