Pl. -ia. [med. L., f. L. aspers-: see -ORIUM.] A vessel for holding the holy water used for ceremonial sprinkling.
1858. Rev. W. H. Neligan, Rome, etc., 308. Vested in alb, stole, and cope of purple, with the crosier, and mitre of cloth of gold, the grains of incense, and the aspersoria and thurible, were also carried in procession.
1861. C. Reade, Cloister & H., IV. 46. Our holy water is Pagan, and all its uses. See, here is a Pagan aspersorium.
1876. ‘Ouida,’ Beatrice Boville, etc., 251. With which peroration the Warden, with a sigh, took up a work on ‘The Early English Piscini and Aspersoria,’ and became immersed therein.
1880. Edin. Rev., April, 458. The aged bishop … after offering the aspersorium led Rinuccini to the high altar.
