a. Also 6 blasphemose. [f. L. blasphēm-us (see BLASPHEME a.) + -OUS, or perh. immed. a. OF. blasphemeus, AF. -ous. Marlowe and Milton accented it, after L., blasphē·mous.]
1. Uttering or expressing profanity, impiously irreverent.
1535. Coverdale, Isa. lviii. 9. Yf thou … ceasest from blasphemous talkinge.
1590. Marlowe, 2nd Pt. Tamburl., II. i. And scourge their foul blasphemous paganism.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 809. O argument blasphemous, false and proud!
1782. Priestley, Corrupt. Chr., II. ix. 187. John … pronounced it to be a … blasphemous doctrine.
1871. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 42. The history of a prolonged outrage upon these words by blasphemous and arrogant persons.
† 2. Abusive, slanderous, defamatory. Obs.
1604. Sir D. Carleton, in Winwood, Mem., II. 52 (L.). Stone was well whipped in Bridewell, for a blasphemous speech, ‘that there went sixty fools into Spaine besides my lord admiral and his two sons.’
1610. Shaks., Temp., I. i. 43. You bawling, blasphemous incharitable Dog.
