Definition of "aspersing" []

• Present participle of asperse. (verb)

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• "As the honest always feel pleasure in showing regard for the old, so do the wicked always take delight in aspersing the good."
• "Corynasus as purifying his companions, at the funeral of Misenus, by passing three times around them while aspersing them with the lustral waters; and to do so conveniently, it was necessary that he should have moved with his right hand towards them."
• "I suppose I had been misrepresented to them by some here upon account of party, or to ingratiate themselves by aspersing others, as one party here too often occasion; but I hope your Majesty will be so just as not to give credit to such misrepresentations."