Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.