aspersorium

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A brush or aspersorium, used for sprinkling holy water, was leaning against the wall.

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  1. A brush, or oftener a metallic instrument, used by the priest in Roman Catholic churches for sprinkling holy water. Also called aspergillus, aspergillum, aspergill.
  2. A holy-water stoup or font. Parker, Concise Glossary. [Not in common Middle Latin use.]

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  • A brush or aspersorium, used for sprinkling holy water, was leaning against the wall. —  Under the Rose
  • So he called for the "aspersorium." —  Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
  • 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." —  Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • Near the doorway to the oratory, was the stoupe or aspersorium for holy-water; and in various cysts and crypts, in either room, were caskets containing the relics of saints. —  Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04
  • Vignale in his sacerdotal robes, with young Henry Bertrand at his side, bearing an aspersorium; Doctors Arnott and Antommarchi, the persons entrusted with the superintendence of the hearse, drawn by four horses, led by grooms, and escorted by twelve grenadiers without arms, on each side; these last were to carry the coffin on their shoulders as soon as the ruggedness of the road prevented the hearse from advancing; young —  Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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  1. Middle Latin, from Latin aspergere, past participle aspersus, besprinkle: see asperse.
 

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