asperges

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  1. noun Roman Catholic Church The ceremony of sprinkling the altar, clergy, and congregation with holy water.

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  • Yes, that is a priest doing the asperges with a super-soaker. —  Wheat & Weeds
  • With a slow movement, he raised three times the asperges brush, and he purified him with a gentle rain. —  The Dream
  • So sweetly, "Tu asperges me," that I —  Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete
  • Tu asperges me.] —  Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete
  • At the right and the left of the crucifix two large wax-tapers were burning in the silver candelabrum which had been brought up from the parlour, and there were also there the consecrated wafers, the asperges brush, an ewer of water with its basin and a napkin, and two plates of white porcelain, one of which was filled with long bits of cotton, and the other with little _cornets_ of paper. —  The Dream
 

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  1. From Latin aspergēs (mē), you will sprinkle (me), the first words of the rite, second person sing. future tense of aspergere, to sprinkle; see asperse.

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  1. Late Latin, properly second person singular future indicative of Latin aspergere, sprinkle: see asperge.
 

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/æsˈpərdʒiz/
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