Usage examples of "asperge".
With a slow movement, he raised three times the asperges brush, and he purified him with a gentle rain.
They asperged the body with water and Tibor said prayers for the memory of the dead sailor before lighting the dry reeds he had woven through the lower layers of the pyre.
The priests began to move through the ranks of kneeling soldiers, asperging them with rose water from brass censers which they whirled about them on long chains, as indigen hunters whirl bolas around their heads before letting fly at their target.
For the entire distance he was preceded by a thousand priests and bishops in the finery of their office, intoning a solemn hymn and asperging the genuflecting crowds with conifer sprigs dipped in holy water.
At daybreak the bishops not only of the Ile, but of Bordeaux and Rouen and Canterbury, with many others, assembled to asperge the edifice with lustral water.