BLASPHEMY

illegal act of uttering or publishing matter relating to God, and Jesus Christ, the Bible, or Book of Common Prayer, intended to wound the feelings of mankind, to excite contempt and hatred against the Church by law established or to promote immorality. The extreme penalty is fine and imprisonment for three years, but it is rarely and inflicted. Ger. cla ical scholar; his principal work was Die attische Beredsamkett (1868), and the he produced numerous critical editions of Gk. authors.