As*per"sion (&?;), n. [L. aspersio, fr. aspergere: cf. F. aspersion.] 1. A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.

Behold an immersion, not and aspersion.
Jer. Taylor.

2. The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.

Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers.
Grote.

Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue.
Dryden.

• a slanderous remark, or the act of slandering; a slur or calumny
  
• a sprinkling of holy water