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Definition of Aspersed
1. a. Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.
Definition of Aspersed
1. Verb. (past of asperse) ¹
2. Adjective. (heraldry) Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered over the surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aspersed
1. asperse [v] - See also: asperse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspersed
Literary usage of Aspersed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"She aspersed a stream From dark Avernus drawn, she said; soft herbs Were cut by
moonlight with a blade of bronze, Oozing black poison-sap; ..."
2. A Commentary on the Book of Psalms, in which Their Literal in Historical by George Horne (1833)
"... aspersed and calumniated by such a person ; that the Psalm was written to
vindicate himself from the imputation, whatever was the nature of it ..."
3. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist by James Baldwin Brown (1823)
"Foremost in the number ef these generous vindicators of the aspersed Philanthropist
was Dr. Aikin, who addressed to the editor a letter upon the subject, ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... were true, the chancellor had aspersed the king in such a manner, and so much
depraved him in point of his honour, that he was not fit to sit there. ..."
5. The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the by Richard Robert Madden (1867)
"... characters have been maligned, traduced, aspersed in this chaste vehicle.
And let it be remembered that among the Commons, the present speaker, ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of Sir Matthew Hale by John Bickerton Williams (1835)
"resting satisfied with contradiction, aspersed this " great man," " the most
candid of all writers," (for so he designates him,) with unwarranted severity ..."
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