The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blasphemous \Blas"phe*mous\, a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. ?.]
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting
anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous
person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a
blasphemous caricature. ``Blasphemous publications.''
--Porteus.
Nor from the Holy One of Heaven
Refrained his tongue blasphemous.
--Milton.
Note: Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., blasfemous, from Old French blasfemeus or directly from Late Latin blasphemus, from blasphemare (see blaspheme).
Wiktionary
a. Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy.
WordNet
adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" [syn: profane, sacrilegious]
characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blue, profane]
Usage examples of "blasphemous".
Those eyes grew and became gigantic, and in them the Cimmerian glimpsed the reality of all the abysmal and blasphemous horrors that lurk in the outer darkness of formless voids and nighted gulfs.
Many a day had elapsed since they had dared to sing these blasphemous and antisocial songs in public.
University Chapel, she was attired in a scandalous Bloomer outfit, on her hands and knees in a barren, slate-floored room, chalking diagrams she had a notion her old minister would have considered blasphemous on the floor.
Vaster and vaster loomed the tenebrous towers of the nighted castle above, and Carter could see that it was well-nigh blasphemous in its immensity.
The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli -- a great poet, little known outside Rome, since he wrote in the rough, dirty, blasphemous dialect of the Roman streets.
They found the Godmech Cogs, with their doctrine of the mechanized cosmos, and found themselves leaders of a heretic sect within that already blasphemous church.
A clause in the act concerning blasphemous and seditious libels, which decreed the punishment of transportation on a second conviction was withdrawn in the commons, but the penalty of banishment, hitherto unknown in England, was enacted in its stead.
As the single-hearted Scottishman had never for a moment doubted these gods of the ancient Gentiles to be actually devils, so he now hesitated not to believe that the blasphemous hymn of the Saracen had raised up an infernal spirit.
To this day, said Grandma Matern, before spinning the story out some more, directing the coaches to other places and making them draw up outside chapels and castles -- they say that to this day pious hymns and blasphemous prayers can be heard farting from the fireplace of that weird inn, where nobody is willing to live.
The ship, Blasphemous Geometries, was about two meters deep in the center.
Camila, who was working with the engineers -- Volkov and the rest -- on the Blasphemous Geometries.
She was due in the receiving-bay under the Blasphemous from the beginning of the day shift.
The Darker the Night the Brighter the Star calling Blasphemous Geometries.
She loved me, I think, but there was no way she could fly off in the gods-damned hell-spawned Blasphemous Geometries.
Heaven and not from the anti-Christ, would it not be a blasphemous act for us to attempt to destroy it?