Profane: alternatives and connections

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

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Not reverent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

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Alt. of Laical

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Alt. of Laical

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of Lie, to recline.

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of Lie, to recline.

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked.

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Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked.

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Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.

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Not holy; unhallowed; not consecrated; hence, profane; wicked; impious.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

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To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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Tending to pervert.

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Tending to pervert.

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The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

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The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

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The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.

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The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.

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Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; e…

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Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; e…

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Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious languag…

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Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious languag…

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

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Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.

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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.

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Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a b…

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Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the…

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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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To rage in excess of.

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To turnanother way; to divert.

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Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious.

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a…

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Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a…

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