aspersev.

Brit.

/əˈspəːs/, U.S.

/əˈspərs/,

/æˈspərs/

Forms: Also 1600s asperce.

Etymology: < Latin aspers- participial stem of aspergĕre : see asperge v. Compare aspersé in Cotgrave.

Always transitive.

1. To besprinkle, bespatter (a person or thing) with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)]

strinklea1300

sprinkc1390

springle?a1425

sprinkle?a1425

asperse1490

asperge1547

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something

besprengc1000

strinklea1300

to-sprenga1382

sparkle14..

sprinkle?a1425

besprinklec1440

asperse1490

spray1527

asperge1547

pepper?1605

bepeps1622

conspergate1623

bescatter1631

spurtle1633

spatter1647

consperge1657

superfuse1657

bespatter1674

superseminate1699

asperge1721

sparge1786

spray1861

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 90 She dide asperse the place with the waters.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 221 There are Foxes aspersed ouer with blacke spots.

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices viii. 247 The Child is thrice to be aspersed with water on the face.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. xiii. 245 The people, as they entered, aspersed themselves with all their might.

2. To sprinkle, scatter (liquid, dust, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle

warpc1000

sprengeOE

strenkc1175

springa1387

bespring1387

sprinkc1390

sprinklea1400

strinklec1400

springle?a1425

sprinkle?a1425

sprainc1440

bespreng1496

oversprinkle?1548

overstrew1570

besprent1573

insperse1587

insperge1599

asperse1607

besprink1609

disparple?1615

spark1637

swiggle1683

twirl1763

sparkle1787

bespatter1813

spray1829

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 8 With some golden hair aspersed among the residue.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv. 340 Blood, which hung on every hair, Aspersed like dew-drops.

†3. To sprinkle in as an ingredient, intermingle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > by sprinkling

asperse1548

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 6 Except he had in the moste desired birthe of the same, aspersed the deathe of your mooste dere Mother: we should by our immoderate felicitee have tempted and provoked hym to take you bothe from vs.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 84 Making a plaster thereof with Barley meale and a little Brimston aspersed.

a. To bespatter (a person, a person's character, etc.) with damaging reports, false and injurious charges or imputations. In 17th cent.: Injuriously and falsely to charge with.

ΚΠ

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 497/1 Monkish humors haue aspersed other such men with bitter reproches.

a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xxv. 53 He is unjustly aspersed with pride.

1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 10 The calumnies with which the Jews had aspersed him.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 27 The criminations, with which the leaders..appeared desirous of aspersing one another.

†b. with flattery or praise. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)]

flatter?c1225

flackera1250

slickc1250

blandishc1305

blandc1315

glozec1330

beflatter1340

curryc1394

elkena1400

glaverc1400

anointa1425

glotherc1480

losenge1480

painta1513

to hold in halsc1560

soothe1580

smooth1584

smooth1591

soothe1601

pepper1654

palp1657

smoothify1694

butter1700

asperse1702

palaver1713

blarney1834

sawder1834

soft-soap1835

to cock up1838

soft-solder1838

soother1842

behoney1845

soap1853

beslaver1861

beslobber1868

smarm1902

sugar1923

sweetmouth1948

smooth-talk1950

1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) Ded. Men of your Lordship's Figure and Station..ought [not] to be aspers'd with such Pieces of Flattery while living.

5. To spread false and injurious charges against; to detract from, slander, calumniate, traduce, defame, vilify:

a. a person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]

to say or speak shame of, on, byc950

teleeOE

sayOE

to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000

belie?c1225

betell?c1225

missayc1225

skandera1300

disclanderc1300

wrenchc1300

bewrayc1330

bite1330

gothele1340

slanderc1340

deprave1362

hinderc1375

backbite1382

blasphemec1386

afamec1390

fame1393

to blow up?a1400

defamea1400

noise1425

to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445

malignc1450

to speak villainy of1470

infame1483

injury1484

painta1522

malicea1526

denigrate1526

disfamea1533

misreporta1535

sugill?1539

dishonest?c1550

calumniate1554

scandalize1566

ill1577

blaze1579

traduce1581

misspeak1582

blot1583

abuse1592

wronga1596

infamonize1598

vilify1598

injure?a1600

forspeak1601

libel1602

infamize1605

belibel1606

calumnize1606

besquirt1611

colly1615

scandala1616

bedirt1622

soil1641

disfigurea1643

sycophant1642

spatter1645

sugillate1647

bespattera1652

bedung1655

asperse1656

mischieve1656

opprobriatea1657

reflect1661

dehonestate1663

carbonify1792

defamate1810

mouth1810

foul-mouth1822

lynch1836

rot1890

calumny1895

ding1903

bad-talk1938

norate1938

bad-mouth1941

monster1967

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 301 Aspersing those that are otherwise minded then themselves.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 30 Xenophon asperseth him, that he went thither to share in the Sicilian luxury.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xliv. 164 A libel, tending to asperse or vilify the house of commons.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 7 There were foul tongues to asperse a Douglas.

b. character, reputation, honour, etc.

ΚΠ

1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 215 He asperceth the credit and reputation of another by approbrious words.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iv. 97 Has any one been aspersing your husband's character?

†6. To sprinkle, cast (a damaging imputation or false charge) upon. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 13 He can asperse no greater imputation on Gentry.

1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 243 Nor asperse upon the republike so foule a stain.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	asperse
释义	aspersev. Brit. /əˈspəːs/, U.S. /əˈspərs/, /æˈspərs/ Forms: Also 1600s asperce. Etymology: < Latin aspers- participial stem of aspergĕre : see asperge v. Compare aspersé in Cotgrave. Always transitive. 1. To besprinkle, bespatter (a person or thing) with. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)] strinklea1300 sprinkc1390 springle?a1425 sprinkle?a1425 asperse1490 asperge1547 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something besprengc1000 strinklea1300 to-sprenga1382 sparkle14.. sprinkle?a1425 besprinklec1440 asperse1490 spray1527 asperge1547 pepper?1605 bepeps1622 conspergate1623 bescatter1631 spurtle1633 spatter1647 consperge1657 superfuse1657 bespatter1674 superseminate1699 asperge1721 sparge1786 spray1861 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 90 She dide asperse the place with the waters. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 221 There are Foxes aspersed ouer with blacke spots. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices viii. 247 The Child is thrice to be aspersed with water on the face. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. xiii. 245 The people, as they entered, aspersed themselves with all their might. 2. To sprinkle, scatter (liquid, dust, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle warpc1000 sprengeOE strenkc1175 springa1387 bespring1387 sprinkc1390 sprinklea1400 strinklec1400 springle?a1425 sprinkle?a1425 sprainc1440 bespreng1496 oversprinkle?1548 overstrew1570 besprent1573 insperse1587 insperge1599 asperse1607 besprink1609 disparple?1615 spark1637 swiggle1683 twirl1763 sparkle1787 bespatter1813 spray1829 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 8 With some golden hair aspersed among the residue. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxv. 340 Blood, which hung on every hair, Aspersed like dew-drops. †3. To sprinkle in as an ingredient, intermingle. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > by sprinkling asperse1548 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Pref. 6 Except he had in the moste desired birthe of the same, aspersed the deathe of your mooste dere Mother: we should by our immoderate felicitee have tempted and provoked hym to take you bothe from vs. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 84 Making a plaster thereof with Barley meale and a little Brimston aspersed. 4. a. To bespatter (a person, a person's character, etc.) with damaging reports, false and injurious charges or imputations. In 17th cent.: Injuriously and falsely to charge with. ΚΠ 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 497/1 Monkish humors haue aspersed other such men with bitter reproches. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xxv. 53 He is unjustly aspersed with pride. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ Rom. i. 10 The calumnies with which the Jews had aspersed him. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 27 The criminations, with which the leaders..appeared desirous of aspersing one another. †b. with flattery or praise. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)] flatter?c1225 flackera1250 slickc1250 blandishc1305 blandc1315 glozec1330 beflatter1340 curryc1394 elkena1400 glaverc1400 anointa1425 glotherc1480 losenge1480 painta1513 to hold in halsc1560 soothe1580 smooth1584 smooth1591 soothe1601 pepper1654 palp1657 smoothify1694 butter1700 asperse1702 palaver1713 blarney1834 sawder1834 soft-soap1835 to cock up1838 soft-solder1838 soother1842 behoney1845 soap1853 beslaver1861 beslobber1868 smarm1902 sugar1923 sweetmouth1948 smooth-talk1950 1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) Ded. Men of your Lordship's Figure and Station..ought [not] to be aspers'd with such Pieces of Flattery while living. 5. To spread false and injurious charges against; to detract from, slander, calumniate, traduce, defame, vilify: a. a person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)] to say or speak shame of, on, byc950 teleeOE sayOE to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000 belie?c1225 betell?c1225 missayc1225 skandera1300 disclanderc1300 wrenchc1300 bewrayc1330 bite1330 gothele1340 slanderc1340 deprave1362 hinderc1375 backbite1382 blasphemec1386 afamec1390 fame1393 to blow up?a1400 defamea1400 noise1425 to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445 malignc1450 to speak villainy of1470 infame1483 injury1484 painta1522 malicea1526 denigrate1526 disfamea1533 misreporta1535 sugill?1539 dishonest?c1550 calumniate1554 scandalize1566 ill1577 blaze1579 traduce1581 misspeak1582 blot1583 abuse1592 wronga1596 infamonize1598 vilify1598 injure?a1600 forspeak1601 libel1602 infamize1605 belibel1606 calumnize1606 besquirt1611 colly1615 scandala1616 bedirt1622 soil1641 disfigurea1643 sycophant1642 spatter1645 sugillate1647 bespattera1652 bedung1655 asperse1656 mischieve1656 opprobriatea1657 reflect1661 dehonestate1663 carbonify1792 defamate1810 mouth1810 foul-mouth1822 lynch1836 rot1890 calumny1895 ding1903 bad-talk1938 norate1938 bad-mouth1941 monster1967 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 301 Aspersing those that are otherwise minded then themselves. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 30 Xenophon asperseth him, that he went thither to share in the Sicilian luxury. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xliv. 164 A libel, tending to asperse or vilify the house of commons. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 7 There were foul tongues to asperse a Douglas. b. character, reputation, honour, etc. ΚΠ 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 215 He asperceth the credit and reputation of another by approbrious words. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. iv. 97 Has any one been aspersing your husband's character? †6. To sprinkle, cast (a damaging imputation or false charge) upon. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 13 He can asperse no greater imputation on Gentry. 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio Arcadian Princesse 243 Nor asperse upon the republike so foule a stain. 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