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Profane :: Profane (a.) To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God..

Profane :: Profane (a.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage.

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like..

Questman :: Questman (n.) One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures..

Disabused :: Disabused (imp. & p. p.) of Disabus.

Mistreat :: Mistreat (v. t.) To treat amiss; to abuse.

Prevaricator :: Prevaricator (n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust.

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Physical ill treatment; injury.

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Improper treatment or use; application to a wrong or bad purpose; misuse; as, an abuse of our natural powers; an abuse of civil rights, or of privileges or advantages; an abuse of language..

Jaw :: Jaw (v. t.) To assail or abuse by scolding.

Inveigh :: Inveigh (v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse..

Revilement :: Revilement (n.) The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse..

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) To violate; to ravish.

Caperclaw :: Caperclaw (v. t.) To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse..

Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) A corrupt practice or custom; offense; crime; fault; as, the abuses in the civil service..

Bismer :: Bismer (n.) Shame; abuse.

Corrector :: Corrector (n.) One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids..

Visit :: Visit (v. t.) To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

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