aspersion

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Aspersion was commonly employed in the case of the sick, and was known by the designation of clinic or bed baptism.

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)

It may be administered by Immersion, Aspersion, or Affusion.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by Holmes, E. E.

To which is added, An Appendix, by Way of Vindication of Mr. Duncan Campbel, against that groundless Aspersion cast upon him, That he but pretended to be Deaf and Dumb.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

We ponder, question, doubt—and pray The Deep to answer Yea or Nay; And what does the engirdling wave, The undivulging, yield us, save Aspersion of bewildering spray?

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

Aspersion with cold water on the painful part.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus