| profane |
| 1. adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing. | |
| 2. adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular. | |
| profane authors | |
| 3. adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious. | |
| 4. adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain | |
| a profane person, word, oath, or tongue | |
| 5. n. A person or thing that is profane. | |
| 6. n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason. | |
| 7. v. To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate | |
| One should not profane the name of God. | |
| to profane the Scriptures | |
| 8. v. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile. | |
| authors |
| 1. n. plural of author | |
| 2. v. third-person singular present indicative of author | |
| author |
| 1. n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition. | |
| The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author. | |
| 2. n. (with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun. | |
| Have you read any Corinthian authors? | |
| 3. n. Someone who writes books for a living. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant. | |
| 5. v. (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author. | |
