Dictionary entry

Aspirate (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ As″pi‐rate (ăs″pĭ‐rā̍t), As″pi‐ra″ted (–rā″tĕd), } 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.