1.
[syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
2. speak of in an irreverent or impious manner;
- Example: "blaspheme God"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blaspheme \Blas*pheme"\, v. i.
To utter blasphemy.
[1913 Webster]
He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath
never forgiveness. --Mark iii.
29.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blaspheme \Blas*pheme"\ (bl[a^]s*f[=e]m"), v. t. [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.
[1913 Webster]
So Dagon shall be magnified, and God,
Besides whom is no god, compared with idols,
Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously
sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile;
to abuse.
[1913 Webster]
You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Those who from our labors heap their board,
Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blaspheme
v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were
cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss,
blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
2: speak of in an irreverent or impious manner; "blaspheme God"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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