ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Besprinkled; spec. in Her. strewed or powdered with a number of small charges, such as fleur-de-lis.
1882. Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry, 130.
2. Calumniated, slandered, defamed.
1655. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I., 181. The Archbishop of Canterbury stands aspersed in common fame.
1771. J. Fletcher, Checks, Wks. 1795, II. 96. Mr. Wesley owed it to … his own aspersed character.
1860. Motley, Netherl. (1868), I. v. 272. To vindicate his aspersed integrity.
