asperse
verb/əˈspɜːs/UK/əˈspɝs/US
Etymology
From Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere.
- borrowed from aspersus
Definitions
To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
- a hand in San Marco's font / aspersed him with foul canal water
To falsely or maliciously charge someone.
- If any one had taxed him with the vice, he would have indignantly repelled the accusation, and conceived himself unworthily aspersed.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for asperse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA