blaspheme

Old French blaspheme, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasphēmō, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌblæsˈfiːm/, /ˌblɑːsˈfiːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈblæs.fim/

blaspheme (third-person singular simple present blasphemes, present participle blaspheming, simple past and past participle blasphemed)

1. (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Mark 3:29:

     But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

   • 1980, The Blues Brothers:

     Mrs. Murphy: Don't you blaspheme in here!

2. (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, / Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, / Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dr. W. Beveridge

     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?

3. (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     Those who from our labours heap their board, / Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.

• blasphemer
• blasphemingly
• blasphemous
• blasphemously
• blasphemy

blaspheme (plural blasphemes)

1. Obsolete spelling of blasphemy

blasphēme

1. vocative masculine singular of blasphēmus