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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aspirate \As"pi*rate\ ([a^]s"p[i^]*r[asl]t), Aspirated
\As"pi*ra"ted\ (-r[=a]"t[e^]d), a. [L. aspiratus p. p.]
Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath.
But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an
aspiration as h. --Holder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Aspirate \As"pi*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aspirated}; p. pr &
vb n. {Aspirating}.] [L. aspiratus p. p. of aspirare to
breathe toward or upon to add the breathing h; ad + spirare
to breathe, blow. Cf {Aspire}.]
To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound;
as we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a
vowel or a liquid consonant.
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