insperse

From Latin inspersus, past participle of inspergere (“to sprinkle upon”); prefix in- (“in, on”) + spargere (“to sprinkle”).

insperse (third-person singular simple present insperses, present participle inspersing, simple past and past participle inspersed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To sprinkle; to scatter.
   • 1650, Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Walter Charleton, A Ternary of Paradoxes:

     the Verity of these Paradoxes, inspersed upon the ensuing Treatise

• insperse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• erepsins, ripeness, serpines, spirenes

īnsperse

1. vocative masculine singular of īnspersus