profane

profane
    adj 1: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and
           blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn:
           {blasphemous}, {blue}, {profane}]
    2: not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and
       profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture",
       "children being brought up in an entirely profane
       environment" [syn: {profane}, {secular}] [ant: {sacred}]
    3: not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled [syn:
       {profane}, {unconsecrated}, {unsanctified}]
    4: 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" [syn: {blasphemous}, {profane},
       {sacrilegious}]
    v 1: 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" [syn:
         {corrupt}, {pervert}, {subvert}, {demoralize},
         {demoralise}, {debauch}, {debase}, {profane}, {vitiate},
         {deprave}, {misdirect}]
    2: violate the sacred character of a place or language;
       "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church";
       "profane the name of God" [syn: {desecrate}, {profane},
       {outrage}, {violate}]
    

Profane \Pro*fane"\, a. [F., fr. L. profanus, properly, before
   the temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before +
   fanum temple. See 1st {Fane}.]
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   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. "Profane authors." --I.
      Disraeli.
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            The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.
                                                  --Gibbon.
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   2. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
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            Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.
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   3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect,
      irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
      Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the
      name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a
      profane person, word, oath, or tongue. --1 Tim. i. 9.
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   Syn: Secular; temporal; worldly; unsanctified; unhallowed;
        unholy; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; wicked;
        godless; impious. See {Impious}.
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Profane \Pro*fane"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Profaned}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Profaning}.] [L. profanare: cf. F. profaner. See
   {Profane}, a.]
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   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.
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            The priests in the temple profane the sabbath.
                                                  --Matt. xii.
                                                  5.
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   2. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base
      employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
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            So idly to profane the precious time. --Shak.
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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. 
    

149 Moby Thesaurus words for "profane":
      Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abuse, abusive, apostate,
      atheistic, backsliding, bad, bawdy, befoul, blasphemous, blue,
      calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse,
      comminatory, commit sacrilege, common, contaminate, contemptuous,
      contumelious, convert, corrupt, cursing, damnatory, debase,
      defalcate, defile, defiled, degrade, denunciatory, desecrate,
      dirty, disbelieving, dishonor, disrespectful, divert, dysphemistic,
      earthly, earthy, embezzle, epithetic, ethnic, excommunicative,
      excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, filthy,
      fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, fulminatory, gentile, godless,
      heathen, idolatrous, immodest, impious, imprecatory, improper,
      impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, infidel, infidelic,
      iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, lay, low,
      maladminister, maledictory, material, materialistic, misapply,
      misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, mundane,
      nasty, naughty, nonsacred, obscene, off color, pagan, peculate,
      pervert, pilfer, pollute, profanatory, prostitute, raunchy, raw,
      recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, reprobate, ribald,
      risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, secular,
      sinful, smutty, taboo, taint, temporal, terrestrial, the fleshly,
      the mundane, the profane, the secular, the temporal, the unholy,
      the worldly, tref, unbelieving, unblessed, unclean, uncouth,
      undutiful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unmentionable, unprintable,
      unregenerate, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, venomous, vile,
      violate, vitiate, vituperative, vulgar, wicked, worldly