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aspersorium
[as-per-sawr-ee-uhm, -sohr-]
noun
plural
aspersoria, aspersoriumsa vessel for holding holy water.
aspersorium
/ ˌæəˈɔːɪə /
noun
a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
Also called: aspergillum.a perforated instrument used to sprinkle holy water
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of aspersorium1
Example Sentences
Several long benches and tables, two comfortable arm-chairs, a handsome crucifix upon the wall, and a bronze aspersorium, composed all the furniture of the room.
A brush or aspersorium, used for sprinkling holy water, was leaning against the wall.
And those figures that moved about it, with censor and aspersorium, were as angels for tenderness and dignity and undoubted power.
After dark he will not move a yard from his camp without a flaring torch of paper bark, a fiery aspersorium for the scaring of the "debil-debil."
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