Usually means: Catholic ritual sprinkling with holy water.
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  1. asperges: Merriam-Webster
  2. asperges: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asperges: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Asperges: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Asperges, asperges: Wordnik
  6. asperges: Wiktionary
  7. Asperges: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Asperges: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Asperges, asperges: Dictionary.com
  10. Asperges: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Asperges: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. asperges: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Asperges: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. asperges: FreeDictionary.org
  15. asperges: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. asperges: Merriam-Webster

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  1. asperges: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Asperges: Catholic Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (asperges)

noun:  A Christian rite in which the congregation is sprinkled with water.
noun:  The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

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