ASPERSORIUM • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Aspersorium

... like the King's on one hand to an oratory, on the other to a spacious ante-room; the lower part of the walls was covered with arras, leaving space for a niche that contained an image of the Virgin. Near the doorway to the oratory, was the stoupe or aspersorium for holy-water; and in various cysts and crypts, in either room, were caskets containing the relics of saints. The purple light from the stained glass of a high narrow window, shaped in the Saxon arch, streamed rich and full over the Queen's bended head like a glory, and tinged ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton