Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to handsel
Participle: handseled
Gerund: handseling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | handsel |
| you | handsel |
| he;she;it | handsels |
| we | handsel |
| you | handsel |
| they | handsel |
Perfect
| I | have handseled |
| you | have handseled |
| he;she;it | has handseled |
| we | have handseled |
| you | have handseled |
| they | have handseled |
Past
| I | handseled |
| you | handseled |
| he;she;it | handseled |
| we | handseled |
| you | handseled |
| they | handseled |
Pluperfect
| I | had handseled |
| you | had handseled |
| he;she;it | had handseled |
| we | had handseled |
| you | had handseled |
| they | had handseled |
Future
| I | will handsel |
| you | will handsel |
| he;she;it | will handsel |
| we | will handsel |
| you | will handsel |
| they | will handsel |
Future Perfect
| I | will have handseled |
| you | will have handseled |
| he;she;it | will have handseled |
| we | will have handseled |
| you | will have handseled |
| they | will have handseled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | handsel |
| you | handsel |
| he;she;it | handsel |
| we | handsel |
| you | handsel |
| they | handsel |
Perfect
| I | have handseled |
| you | have handseled |
| he;she;it | have handseled |
| we | have handseled |
| you | have handseled |
| they | have handseled |
Imperfect
| I | handseled |
| you | handseled |
| he;she;it | handseled |
| we | handseled |
| you | handseled |
| they | handseled |
Pluperfect
| I | had handseled |
| you | had handseled |
| he;she;it | had handseled |
| we | had handseled |
| you | had handseled |
| they | had handseled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would handsel |
| you | would handsel |
| he;she;it | would handsel |
| we | would handsel |
| you | would handsel |
| they | would handsel |
Perfect
| I | would have handseled |
| you | would have handseled |
| he;she;it | would have handseled |
| we | would have handseled |
| you | would have handseled |
| they | would have handseled |
Imperative
| you | handsel |
| we | Let's handsel |
| you | handsel |
Verbs conjugated like 'handsel'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'handsel'
handle,
angel,
cancel,
candle,
channel,
dander,
dandle,
fardel,
gander,
hade,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.
Sample Sentences
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She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby. [2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 55:]
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And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 42:]
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Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer. [1647, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Worse Times:]
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The lads, dressed like their papas, seemed uncomfortable in their new clothes (many that day handselled their first pair of boots), […]. [1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter IV, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part I, page 28:]
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[…]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's. [1994, Michael Brodsky, ***, Four Walls Eight Windows, →ISBN, page 38:]