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Definition of Asperates
1. asperate [v] - See also: asperate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asperates
Literary usage of Asperates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1872)
"But the last four only are called liquids, because they combine more fluently
with other consonants ; and the asperates and sibilants are referable on other ..."
2. The Elements of Greek Grammar by Richard Valpy (1825)
"The second of two asperates is seldom thus changed : it is regularly done however
in imperatives ... The asperates are never doubled, but instead thereof an ..."
3. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"The asperates are the opposites to the lenes: the aspirates being the th, ph,
... How the asperates differ from their corresponding lenes has not yet been ..."
4. Philological essays by Thomas Hewitt Key, Key, Thomas Hewitt, 1799-1875 (1868)
"On the other hand, it appears superfluously rich in its ten asperates, distributed
through the so-called gutturals, palatals, cerebrals, dentals, ..."
5. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"Similarly, with the usual change of asperates with each other, we
have 'neath, 'neth(-er) of English, corresponding to enef-eri, enef-ra, cut down
to inferi ..."
6. A History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1851)
"The traitors could not only disclose the contents, but reveal to the government
the place where the paper was deposited. The asperates ..."
7. Oriental and Linguistic Studies by William Dwight Whitney (1893)
"Whether it is a whim or a false theory that makes him write of " asperates " (p.
22 seq. ..."
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