asperge

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And that he who, entering into a church, doth not asperge himself with holy water, sinneth not, (461) if so be he do it _circa contemptum_.

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  1. To sprinkle. Each thing in order, as before, His pious hands array, Asperge the shrine; and then once more He takes his cheerful way. Bulwer, tr. of Schiller's Fridolin.

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  1. = French asperger, from Latin aspergere, sprinkle, from ad, to, + spargere, sprinkle: see sparse, and cf. asperse.
 

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