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To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

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  1. v. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
  2. v. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
  3. v. i. To utter blasphemy.
  4. v. utter obscenities or profanities
  5. v. speak of in an irreverent or impious manner
  6. 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. To utter blasphemy. He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.
  7. To utter blasphemy.He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath neverforgiveness. Mark iii. 29.
  8. v:100 v. speak of in an irreverent or impious manner