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Definition of Asperate
1. v. t. To make rough or uneven.
Definition of Asperate
1. Verb. To make rough or harsh. ¹
2. Adjective. rough ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asperate
1. to make uneven [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES] - See also: uneven
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asperate
Literary usage of Asperate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Greek Grammar by Richard Valpy (1825)
"Two successive syllables very seldom begin each with an asperate. Whenever two
syllables immediately following each other would, according to their peculiar ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1884)
"... widest near the «lie, rather faintly asperate in straight transverse row» :
sides slightly rounded, K broad nml unirli rounded; ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"Scutellum very large, rather deeply asperate. Elytra Tery convex, narrow, and
much attenuated posteriorly, about as as long but narrower than the head and ..."
4. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1900)
"He will make, no doubt, a sound of some sort, either vocal or asperate—if that
sound be contained in the language you mean to teach him, point immediately ..."
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