[f. prec. + -ER1, or (on L. analogies) -OR.]
1. One who asperses; a defamer or calumniator.
1702. Schedule Review’d, 26. An Asperser of the Honourable House.
1738–9. Mrs. Delany, Autobiog. (1861), II. 39. The aspersors of her husband’s chastity.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, I. iii. Confronting the last asperser of the Colonna.
2. An aspergillum.
1882. Times, 18 April, 5/4. Taking the asperser he made the sign of the cross with it on his own forehead and sprinkled the holy water on those around.
