Shahi - A visual dictionary

(adjective)
1. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
2. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
(noun)
1. A person or thing that is profane.
  - 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 244:
    The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
2. A person not a Mason.
(verb)
1. 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.
2. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

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