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Blare (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blared (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blaring.] [OE. blaren, bloren, to cry, woop; cf. G. plärren to bleat, D. blaren to bleat, cry, weep. Prob. an imitative word, but cf. also E. blast. Cf. Blore.] To sound loudly and somewhat harshly. "The trumpet blared." Tennyson.

Blare, v. t. To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.

To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson.

Blare, n. The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

With blare of bugle, clamor of men. Tennyson.

His ears are stunned with the thunder's blare. J. R. Drake.

Blar"ney (blär"n), n. [Blarney, a village and castle near Cork.] Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. [Colloq.]

Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.

Blar"ney, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blarneyed (-nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Blarneying.] To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord." Irving.

Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.

||Bla*sé" (bl*z"), a. [F., p. p. of blaser.] Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

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Blas*pheme" (bls*fm"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasphemed (-fmd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Blaspheming.] [OE. blasfemn, L. blasphemare, fr. Gr. blasfhmei^n: cf. F. blasphémer. See Blame, v.] 1. To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.

How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name? Dr. W. Beveridge.

2. Figuratively, of persons and things not religiously sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.

You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak.

Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

Blas*pheme", v. i. To utter blasphemy.

He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness. Mark iii. 29.

Blas*phem"er (&?;), n. One who blasphemes.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God ? Pope.

Blas"phe*mous (&?;), a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. &?;.] Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus.

Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue blasphemous. Milton.

Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable, as in the above example.

Blas"phe*mous*ly, adv. In a blasphemous manner.

Blas"phe*my (&?;), n. [L. blasphemia, Gr. &?;: cf. OF. blasphemie.] 1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.