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Blasphemed

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.

    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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blasphemed

vb. (en-past of: blaspheme)

Usage examples of "blasphemed".

Abdiel will not hear God blasphemed (a religious term meaning "insulted").

Revelation 16: 21 tells us that 'men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.

And when the son of a woman of Israel had blasphemed God, they that heard it did not kill him, but brought him before Moses, who put him under custody, till God should give sentence against him.

He sold a little house of his, and having received the money, he stood on a stone from which in ancient times the magistrates were accustomed to harangue, and he held the little sack of gold pieces in his hand, and he did not scatter them or give them to the poor, but, after summoning some rogues dicing nearby, he flung the money in their midst and said, ‘Let him take who will,’ and those rogues took the money and went off to gamble it away, and they blasphemed the living God, and he who had given to them heard and did not blush.

Why did you hide—though not at the price of crime—treatises on necromancy, pages that may have blasphemed against the name of God, while for these pages you damned your brothers and have damned yourself?