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Definition of Aspergill
1. Noun. A short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water.
Definition of Aspergill
1. n. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.
Definition of Aspergill
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspergill
Literary usage of Aspergill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tusayan Migration Traditions by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1900)
"The aspergill consists of two feathers tied by a leather thong. By its side is
a bag of tobacco. The two whizzers are flat slats of wood with rain-cloud ..."
2. A Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
"Wi-ki then shook his rattle, and Ha-ha-we the aspergill, and all sang a low song
... He again dipped the aspergill in the liquid, went up on the roof of the ..."
3. Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Edward Payson Evans (1896)
"Then comes the funeral procession : one animal with a censer, another with a
cross, a hog with an aspergill and a basin of holy water, an ass in priestly ..."
4. Publication by Field Columbian Museum (1903)
"During this time the chief priest has picked a bundle of trays, tied up in a
blanket, the medicine bowl, and aspergill, and after having ..."
5. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"... that it was not at all surprising that a few drops from the aspergill of the
Neo-Catholics lighted upon the young Romantic writers, and found their way ..."
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