About The Word Blaspheme
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Blaspheme
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What's The Definition Of Blaspheme?
[v] speak of in an irrevent or impious manner; "blaspheme God"
[v] utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" Synonyms | Synonyms for Blaspheme: Related Terms | Find terms related to Blaspheme: abuse | accurse | anathematize | belittle | blast | calumniate | confound | curse | damn | darn | decry | defame | deprecate | depreciate | disparage | excommunicate | execrate | fulminate against | hex | imprecate | malign | profane | put down | revile | swear | throw a whammy | thunder against | vilify See Also | express | give tongue to | talk about | talk of | utter | verbalise | verbalize Blaspheme In Webster's Dictionary \Blas*pheme"\ (bl[a^]s*f[=e]m"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Blasphemed} (-f[=e]md"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blaspheming}.]
[OE. blasfem[=e]n, L. blasphemare, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n: cf.
F. blasph['e]mer. See {Blame}, v.]
1. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to
revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the
Holy Spirit.
So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom
is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified,
blasphemed, and had in scorn. --Milton.
How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge
and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually
blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name? --Dr. W.
Beveridge.
2. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously
sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile;
to abuse.
You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. --Shak.
Those who from our labors heap their board,
Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.
--Pope.
\Blas*pheme"\, v. i. To utter blasphemy. He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. --Mark iii. 29. |
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