"blasfemen" meaning in Middle English

See blasfemen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /blasˈfɛːmən/
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French blasfemer, a learned borrowing from Late Latin blasphēmāre. Doublet of blamen. Etymology templates: {{dercat|enm|grc}}, {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|enm|fro|blasfemer|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French blasfemer, {{bor+|enm|fro|blasfemer}} Borrowed from Old French blasfemer, {{der|enm|LL.|blasphemo|blasphēmāre}} Late Latin blasphēmāre, {{doublet|enm|blamen}} Doublet of blamen Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} blasfemen Inflection templates: {{enm-conj-wk|blasfem}} Forms: weak [table-tags], blasfemen [infinitive], to blasfemen [infinitive], blasfeme [infinitive], blasfeme [first-person, present, singular], blasfemed [first-person, past, singular], blasfemest [present, second-person, singular], blasfemedest [past, second-person, singular], blasfemeth [present, singular, third-person], blasfemed [past, singular, third-person], blasfeme [present, singular, subjunctive], blasfemed [past, singular, subjunctive], blasfeme [imperative, present, singular], - [imperative, past, singular], blasfemen [plural, present], blasfeme [plural, present], blasfemeden [past, plural], blasfemede [past, plural], blasfemeth [imperative, plural, present], blasfeme [imperative, plural, present], - [imperative, past, plural], blasfemynge [participle, present], blasfemende [participle, present], blasfemed [participle, past], yblasfemed [participle, past]
  1. (transitive, intransitive) to blaspheme; to speak against a deity Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-blasfemen-enm-verb-Ztdx-xpr Disambiguation of Religion: 45 55 0
  2. (transitive, intransitive) to act insultingly towards a deity Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Religion
    Sense id: en-blasfemen-enm-verb-W2Zvb43S Disambiguation of Religion: 45 55 0 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 13 74 13 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 10 82 9
  3. (rare, transitive) to slander; to defame Tags: rare, transitive
    Sense id: en-blasfemen-enm-verb-Su2h4Wec
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: blasfeme, blasphemen, blaspheme, blasefleme Related terms: blasfeme, blasfemour, blasfemye, blasfemyng

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.