aspersorium

[ as-per-sawr-ee-uhm, -sohr- ]

noun

, Roman Catholic Church.

, plural as·per·so·ri·a [as-per-, sawr, -ee-, uh, -, sohr, -], as·per·so·ri·ums.

1. a vessel for holding holy water.
2. aspergillum.

aspersorium

/ ˌæspəˈsɔːrɪəm /

noun

1. a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
2. Also calledaspergillum a perforated instrument used to sprinkle holy water

Word History and Origins

Origin of aspersorium¹

From Medieval Latin, dating back to 1860–65; asperse, -tory ²

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.

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A brush or aspersorium, used for sprinkling holy water, was leaning against the wall.

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And those figures that moved about it, with censor and aspersorium, were as angels for tenderness and dignity and undoubted power.

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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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