Profane

pro-fan?, a. Not sacred or holy; relating to matters other than sacred; secular; temporal;; worldly; characterized by impurity; esp., treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; wicked; godle ; impious.— v. t. [profaned (-fand'), -faning.] To to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to put to a wrong or unworthy use; to desecrate, To pollute, defile, violate, dishonor. — Profanity, -fan''of, Y-tY, n. Quality or character of being profane; profanene ; esp., the use of profane language; blasenphemy; that which is profane; profane language. — Prof'anal i on, n. Act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; act vic of treating with abuse or disrespect. cut Profe , pro-f es', v. t. [-fe ed (-fesf), -fe ing.] To remake open declaration of, confe publicly, affirm; to make pretense to, put on an appearance of; to pretend to knowledge of, proclaim one's self versed in. — v. i. To take a profe ion upon one's self; to the confe . — Profe 'edly, adv. By profe ion; by avowal. — Profes's ion, -fesh'un, n. Act of profe ing; open declaration; public avowal; that which; to; to one profe es; declaration; claim; occupation (not mechanical, agricultural, etc.), to which one devotes himself; the collective body of persons engaged in a calling. — Profe ional, a. Pert, to or engaged or in a profe ion or a calling; profe ed; being by profes ion; avowed. — Profe ionally, adv. By profe ion or calling. — Profe 'or, n. One who makes open profe ion of his sentiments or opinions; esp., afa one who makes a formal profe ion of religion; a public teacher of any science or branch of learning; esp., a college instructor.