Sc. Obs. [ad. L. blasphēmātiōn-em (in Tertullian), f. blasphēmāre.]

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  1.  Insult, reviling, calumniation.

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1533.  Bellenden, Livy, II. (1822), 176. To the mair schame and blasphemacioun of Romane linage.

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1538.  Lyndesay, Papyngo, 881. Thay … bostit hir, with blasphematioun.

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a. 1560.  Rolland, Crt. Venus, IV. 182. Caus Ladeis to get blasphematioun.

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  2.  Blasphemy.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., xvii. 155. Ther blasphematione of the name of god corruptis the ayr.

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1552.  Abp. Hamilton, Catech., 284. It can nocht be said without blasphematioun.

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