单词 | blasphemous |
释义 | 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.
1535Coverdale Isa. lviii. 9 Yf thou..ceasest from blasphemous talkinge. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. ii. i, And scourge their foul blasphemous paganism. 1667Milton P.L. v. 809 O argument blasphemous, false and proud! 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. ix. 187 John..pronounced it to be a..blasphemous doctrine. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 42 The history of a prolonged outrage upon these words by blasphemous and arrogant persons. †2. Abusive, slanderous, defamatory. Obs.
1604Sir 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.’ 1610Shakes. Temp. i. i. 43 You bawling, blasphemous incharitable Dog. |

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