Crossword-Solution: ASPERGES 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Asperges n. The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.
Asperges n. The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an
aspergill.

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HOLY water, ceremony of sprinkling with 1 answer
Holy water-sprinkling rite 1 answer
Religious ceremony of sprinkling. 1 answer
Rite of sprinkling holy water 1 answer
SPRINKLING with holy water 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Eucharist, Lord's supper, communion; the sacrament, the holy sacrament; celebration, high celebration; missa cantata[Lat]; asperges[obs3]; offertory; introit; consecration; consubstantiation, transubstantiation; real presence; elements; mass; high mass, low mass, dry mass.
Roget’s Thesaurus Peter Mark Roget 1991
One of them remembered a bit of Latin he had sung at Stonyhurst: “Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.” (“Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed; thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.”) On the other side of the lines the Germans were suffering in the same way, lousy also, and they, too, were organizing bath-houses.
Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 2002
Menu du Diner Escoffier potage a la Reine Noisettes de Phoque | Claret Haricot Verts | Tintara Champignons en Sauce Antarctique | Pingouin a la Terre Adelie | Burgundy Petits Pois a la Menthe | Chauvenet Pommes Nouvelle | 1898 | Asperges au Beurre Fondu | Plum Pudding Union Jack | Port Pate de Groseilles | Kopke | Desserts | Cafe ---------------0------------ During dinner the Blizzard will render the usual accompaniment--the Tempest.
The Home of the Blizzard Douglas Mawson 2004
Antkowa bowed down to his feet, wiping tears of rage from her eyes, and after she had poured the holy water into a chipped basin and put the asperges-brush beside it, she went out into the passage, where a few people who had come with the priest were waiting already.
Selected Polish Tales Various 2005
And, in the same way, Don Vigilio the assistant, having failed to bring the Holy Water basin and sprinkler, the Cardinal, as officiating priest, could merely make the gesture of blessing the room and the dying man, whilst pronouncing the words of the ritual: "/Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor."* * "Sprinkle me, Lord, with hyssop, and purify me; wash me, and make me whiter than snow."--Trans.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Vol. 4 Emile Zola 2005
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1948–2023).