# blaspheme
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌblæsˈfiːm/, /ˌblɑːsˈfiːm/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈblæs.fim/
* Rhymes: (UK) -iːm

### Etymology 1

From Middle English blasfemen, blasphemen, from Old French blasfemer, from Late Latin blasphēmāre, from Ancient Greek βλασφημέω (blasphēméō). Doublet of blame.

#### Verb

blaspheme (third-person singular simple present blasphemes, present participle blaspheming, simple past and past participle blasphemed)
* (intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 3:29:But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
** 1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act I, signature [A4], recto:Thus from the holy Warres are we return'd, / To ſlumber in the Summer of ſoft peace, / Since thoſe proud enemies that late blaſpheamd / And ſpit their furies in the face of Heaven, / Are now laid low in duſt.
** 1980, The Blues Brothers:Mrs. Murphy: Don't you blaspheme in here!
* (transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
** 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 32:So Dagon ſhall be magnifi'd, and God, / Beſides whom is no God, compar'd with Idols, / Diſglorifi'd, blaſphem'd, and had in ſcorn […]
** a. 1708, William Beveridge, A Form of Sound Words to be used by Ministers: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?
* (transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.
** 1725, Homer, “Book XIV”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:Those who from our labours heap their board, / Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord.

##### Derived terms

* blaspheme-vine
* unblasphemed

##### Related terms

* blasphemer
* blasphemingly
* blasphemous
* blasphemously
* blasphemy

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English blasfeme, blasphem, blaspheme, from Middle French blaspheme, from Old French blasfeme, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasphēmia, from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía).

#### Noun

blaspheme (plural blasphemes)
* Obsolete spelling of blasphemy.

### References

* ↑ “blaspheme, n.$^2$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## Latin
### Adjective

blasphēme
* vocative masculine singular of blasphēmus

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

blaspheme
* Alternative form of blasfemen

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

blaspheme
* Alternative form of blasfeme

#### Adjective

blaspheme
* Alternative form of blasfeme

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

blaspheme
* Alternative form of blasfemye