asperate

t. [In Ital. as per are = to exasperate; Lat. aspero (1) to make rough, (2) to sharpen, (3) to exasperate.] To roughen; to make rough. "Those corpuscles of colour insinuating themselves into all the pores of the body to be dyed, may asperate its superficies, according to the bigue and texture of the corpuscles."- Boyle . +ăs'-per-ā-těd, pa. par. & a. [ASPERATE.] † ăs'-per-ā-ting, pr. par. [ASPERATE.]