Profane

a.	1.
	1.	Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; - opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. - Gibbon.
	2.	Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. - Sir W. Raleigh.
	3.	Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Profaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Profaning.]
	1.	To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God. The priests in the temple profane the sabbath. - Matt. xii. 5.
	2.	To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile. So idly to profane the precious time. - Shak.

Verb	1.	profane - corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, vitiate, subvert
	2.	profane - violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God" Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate
Adj.	1.	profane - characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" Synonyms: blasphemous, blue
	2.	profane - not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment" Antonyms: sacred - concerned with religion or religious purposes; "sacred texts"; "sacred rites"; "sacred music"
	3.	profane - not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified
	4.	profane - grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious

PROFANE. That which has not been consecrated. By a profane place is understood one which is neither sacred, nor sanctified, nor religious. Dig. 11, 7, 2, 4. Vide Things.

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