adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a blasphemous manner; impiously, profanely.

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1531.  Frith, Judgm. Tracy (1829), 245. Against the which many men … have blasphemously barked.

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1611.  Bible, Luke xxii. 65. And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.

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1665.  Wither, Lord’s Prayer, 99. A woman, blasphemously termed her self the Virgin Mary.

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1745.  Swift, On the Trinity, Misc. X. 15 (J.). Where is then the right Use of his Reason which he so much boasts of, and which he would blasphemously set up to controul the Commands of the Almighty?

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1874.  Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xcviii. 5. ‘This infectious frenzy of psalm-singing,’ as Warton almost blasphemously describes it.

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