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The basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches.

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Usage examples (9)
  • Thenceforth the aspersorium was the inseparable accompaniment of the font.
  • 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.”
  • Nils (places a box on the floor, opens it, and begins to take out aspersorium, censer, chrismatory, palms, and candles).
  • Florine (afterwards Madame Raoul Nathan) a plaster cast of a group representing an angel holding an aspersorium, which adorned the actress's sumptuous apartments in 1834.
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