conspersion
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cōnspersiō, from cōnspergō (“to sprinkle”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
conspersion (countable and uncountable, plural conspersions)
- (obsolete) The act of sprinkling.
- 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:
- The conspersion and washing the door-posts.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conspersion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)