blasphemous, a.
(ˈblɑːsfɪməs, -æ-)
Also 6 blasphemose.
[f. L. blasphēm-us (see blaspheme a.) + -ous, or perh. immed. a. OF. blasphemeus, AF. -ous. Marlowe and Milton accented it, after L., blasˈphēmous.]
1. Uttering or expressing profanity, impiously irreverent.
| 1535 Coverdale Isa. lviii. 9 Yf thou..ceasest from blasphemous talkinge. 1590 Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. ii. i, And scourge their foul blasphemous paganism. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 809 O argument blasphemous, false and proud! 1782 Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. ix. 187 John..pronounced it to be a..blasphemous doctrine. 1871 Morley Voltaire (1886) 42 The history of a prolonged outrage upon these words by blasphemous and arrogant persons. |
† 2. Abusive, slanderous, defamatory. Obs.
| 1604 Sir D. Carleton in Winwood Mem. II. 52 (L.) Stone was well whipped in Bridewell, for a blasphemous speech, ‘that there went sixty fools into Spaine besides my lord admiral and his two sons.’ 1610 Shakes. Temp. i. i. 43 You bawling, blasphemous incharitable Dog. |