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prettygoodwordTheme week! -- because I happened to have a handful of words beginning with A in the queue, let's have an A week.
asperse (uh-SPURS) - v., to sprinkle or splatter, especially with holy water; to bespatter, slander, defame, attack the integrity or reputation of someone.
Talk about cleft meanings. Also sometimes appears in the alternate form of aspersion, as in cast aspersions. Taken around 1490 from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere, to sprinkle, from ad-, ad- + spargere, to strew.
---L.
asperse (uh-SPURS) - v., to sprinkle or splatter, especially with holy water; to bespatter, slander, defame, attack the integrity or reputation of someone.
Talk about cleft meanings. Also sometimes appears in the alternate form of aspersion, as in cast aspersions. Taken around 1490 from Latin aspersus, past participle of aspergere, to sprinkle, from ad-, ad- + spargere, to strew.
---L.
