Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of sprinkling. Swift, Tale of a Tub, iv.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of sprinkling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
sprinkling .
Etymologies
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Latin spargere to strew + facere, factum, to make.
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The operation was performed by spargefaction in a proper time of the moon.
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
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