asperate

[ as-puh-reyt ]

verb (used with object)

, as·per·at·ed, as·per·at·ing.

1. to make rough, harsh, or uneven:

   a voice asperated by violent emotion.

asperate

/ ˈæspəˌreɪt; ˈæspərəs /

adjective

1. (of plant parts) having a rough surface due to a covering of short stiff hairs

Word History and Origins

Origin of asperate¹

First recorded in 1650–60, asperate is from the Latin word asperātus (past participle of asperāre ). See asper ², -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Sporangia scattered, stipitate or occasionally sub-sessile spherical, .8–1 mm. high; peridium granulated, bright golden yellow; stipe, when present, one-half to two-thirds the height of the sporangium, blackish-brown; hypothallus, minute, thin, brown; columella absent; capillitium rather dense, composed of large angular nodes, completely filled with bright yellow granules of lime, and connected by very short, delicate, colorless internodes destitute of lime; spores globose minutely verruculose, or asperate, 10.7–11.8 � in diameter, brownish-violet by transmitted light, black in the mass.

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But in the ordinary life there in my time there was little to "asperate" the douceur.

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"Ah!" came in an asperate tone from the now trembling and frightened maid.

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A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux."

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A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux."

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