aspersorium
Americannoun
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aspersoria,
plural
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aspersoriums
plural
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a vessel for holding holy water.
noun
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a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
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Also called: aspergillum. a perforated instrument used to sprinkle holy water
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of aspersorium
From Medieval Latin, dating back to 1860–65; see origin at asperse, -tory 2
Example Sentences
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In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several long benches and tables, two comfortable arm-chairs, a handsome crucifix upon the wall, and a bronze aspersorium, composed all the furniture of the room.
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
Sprinkle, spring′kl, v.t. to scatter in small drops or particles: to scatter on: to baptise with a few drops of water: to purify.—v.i. to scatter in drops.—n. an aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
A brush or aspersorium, used for sprinkling holy water, was leaning against the wall.
From Under the Rose by Frederic Stewart Isham
After dark he will not move a yard from his camp without a flaring torch of paper bark, a fiery aspersorium for the scaring of the "debil-debil."
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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