Definition of "asperses" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asperse. (verb)

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• "‘In the very hour of his return almost — before the shoe upon his foot is dry — he asperses his father’s memory to his mother!"
• "Where heroes mixed sat round the noble board, because they maintained society and good fellowship; for the latter truly mixed and joined friends, but our modern system divides and asperses them as persons who, though seemingly very good friends, cannot so much as eat with one another out of the same dish."
• "The spirit which now asperses the character of the Abolitionists, is the _very same_ which dressed up the"