Definition of Asperate

1. v. t. To make rough or uneven.

Definition of Asperate

1. Verb. To make rough or harsh. ¹

2. Adjective. rough ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Asperate

1. to make uneven [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES] - See also: uneven

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asperate

aspected
aspecting
aspection
aspects
aspectual
aspectually
aspecular
aspen
aspen poplar
aspenglow
aspenglows
aspens
asper
asperagine
asperase
asperate (current term)
asperated
asperates
asperating
asperation
asperations
asperge
asperged
asperger
aspergers
asperges
aspergill
aspergilla
aspergilli
aspergillic acid

Literary usage of Asperate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Greek Grammar by Richard Valpy (1825)
"Two successive syllables very seldom begin each with an asperate. Whenever two syllables immediately following each other would, according to their peculiar ..."

2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1884)
"... widest near the «lie, rather faintly asperate in straight transverse row» : sides slightly rounded, K broad nml unirli rounded; ..."

3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"Scutellum very large, rather deeply asperate. Elytra Tery convex, narrow, and much attenuated posteriorly, about as as long but narrower than the head and ..."

4. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1900)
"He will make, no doubt, a sound of some sort, either vocal or asperate—if that sound be contained in the language you mean to teach him, point immediately ..."

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