asperse

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Pope Francis asperses incense as he arrives in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for a canonization ceremony, Sunday, June 5, 2016.

From US News • Jun. 6, 2016

He who wrote these lively verses   Hath his talents misemployed, While he marriage ills rehearses— The conjugal life asperses   Which so many have enjoyed.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

And what but “the dead letter,” as this hierophant of mystic senses asperses the free inventions of genius, can now interest the readers of Spenser?

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The qualified Highlander then takes a large brush, with which he profusely asperses the occupants of all beds, from whom it is not unusual for him to receive ungrateful remonstrances against ablution.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.

If we admit, as perhaps we may, the existence of a measure of truth in this complaint, it will only be to claim that there is some excuse for those whom it asperses.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)