aspersed

English

Verb

aspersed

1. simple past and past participle of asperse

Adjective

aspersed (comparative more aspersed, superlative most aspersed)

1. (heraldry) Having a number of small charges scattered over the surface; semé.
   • 1891, William Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain:

     Coat of arms in the left-hand bottom corner, a lion or rampant in a field gules, aspersed with billets or. Purchased in Flanders from the subject's descendant, who would not part with the picture until he had cut out the coat […]

   • 2012 October 3, Eduardo de J. Douglas, In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, Mexico, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 194:

     The arms of the Counts-Dukes of Benavente have a shield quarterly, or a three bands gules and sinople a five escallops argent aspersed, and bordure compony with the arms of Castile and León.

References

• John Edwin Cussans, Handbook of Heraldry (1869)

Anagrams

• preassed, repassed, respades