Thenceforth the aspersorium was the inseparable accompaniment of the font. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
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.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Nils (places a box on the floor, opens it, and begins to take out aspersorium, censer, chrismatory, palms, and candles). From Wordnik.com. [Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference
Near the doorway to the oratory, was the stoupe or aspersorium for holy-water; and in various cysts and crypts, in either room, were caskets containing the relics of saints. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
It would seem that about the thirteenth century the aspersorium assumed the modern form of a stick surmounted by a rose covered with bristles; at least such is what we infer from miniatures. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
So he called for the "aspersorium.". From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks] Reference
Pagan aspersorium. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
The cavalcade was arranged by order of the Governor in the following manner: The Abbe Vignale in his sacerdotal robes, with young Henry Bertrand at his side, bearing an aspersorium; Doctors Arnott and Antommarchi, the persons entrusted with the superintendence of the hearse, drawn by four horses, led by grooms, and escorted by twelve grenadiers without arms, on each side; these last were to carry the coffin on their shoulders as soon as the ruggedness of the road prevented the hearse from advancing; young Napoleon Bertrand, and Marchand, both on foot, and by the side of the hearse; Counts Bertrand and Montholon on horseback close behind the hearse; a part of the household of the Emperor; Countess Bertrand with her daughter Hortense, in a calash drawn by two horses led by hand by her domestics, who walked by the side of the precipice; the Emperor's horse led by his piqueur Archambaud; the officers of marine on horseback and on foot; the officers of the staff on horse-back; the members o. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Napoleon]
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