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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blaspheme \Blas*pheme"\, verb (used without an object) To utter blasphemy.
He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. --Mark iii. 29.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blaspheme \Blas*pheme"\ (bl[a^]s*f[=e]m"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blasphemed} (-f[=e]mf"); 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blaspheme
verb
1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: {curse}, {cuss}, {swear}, {imprecate}]
2: speak of in an irrevent or impious manner; "blaspheme God"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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