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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blaspheme \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.
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