as per i folious (as perifoʻlius)

[NL. as perifolius:: see as per i foliate.] Same as asperi forate asperity (as-per'i-ti), n.; pl. as per i tics (-tiz). [Early mod. E. as per i tie, The pores and asperities of dry bodies. Boyle , Works, I. 683. Four you sand pioneers were sent in advance...to conquer, in some degree, the asperities of the road. Irving , Granada, p. 320. 2. Roughne of sound; harshne of pronunciation. Those di onances and asperities which still adhered to our diction. T. Warton, Hist. of Eng. Poetry, iii. 62. 3. Harshne of taste; sourne . The asperity of tartarous salts. Bp . Berkeley , Siris, § 86. asphalt Libel and slander are the words most used in speaking of injury to reputation in its relation to the po ible recovery of damages at law. To libel, therefore, often suggests the pecuniary lo by defamation; libel is strictly effected by publication, while slander is strictly by word of mouth. Vilify is, literally, to make one (seem) vile; it suggests a decry defamation of the coarser and more abusive sort. See I am not sure... whether I ought not to call you out Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 35. Whenever you would ruin a person or a government, you must begin by spreading calumnies to defame them. Quoted by I. D'Isracli , Amen. of Lit., II. 75. for aspersing the honour of the family. One trade or art, even those that should be the most Bp . Sprat . Thou sittest and speak est against thy brother; thou slander est thine own mother's son. Ps. 1. 20. You malign our senators, for that Shak ., Cor., 1. 1. If I am liberal, make it their busine to disdain and calumniate another. They are not such as you. Traduc'd by ignorant tongues, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 2. 4. bedne ; bitterne ; severity: as, to chide one with asperity ; " asperity of character," Landor . It could only have been the strong political feeling of Warton which could have induced him to censure the prose of Milton with such asperity . aspera (as'pe-ra), n. [NL., fem. of L. asper , rough.] Same as asper - artery . asper-artery (as'per-ärte-ri), n. [L. aspera arteria , or arteria aspera , a tr. of Gr. ἀρτηρία τρα- χεῖα , lit. rough artery: see asper1 , artery , and trachea.] The trachea or windpipe. Coues. asperate (as'pe-rat), v. t. [ as per at us , asper pp. of as per are , roughen, asper , rough: see asperl .] To make rough or uneven in surface, sound, etc. [Rare.] The level surface of clear water being by agitation as perated . Boyle , Works, I. 683. as per at i on (as-pe-ra's hon), n. [ Bailey . asperge (as-pėrj'), v. t.; pret. and pp. asperged, ppr. asperging. [= F. asperger, Each thing in order, as before, His pious hands array, Asperge the shrine; and then once more He takes his cheerful way. Bulwer, tr. of Schiller's Fridolin.