English English Dictionary

of Blare

of Blare

To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

of Blarney

of Blarney

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

To utter blasphemy.

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

To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

of Blaspheme

One who blasphemes.

of Blaspheme

Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.

In a blasphemous manner.

Figuratively, of things held in high honor: Calumny; abuse; vilification.

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.

The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.

Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.

To confound by a loud blast or din.