(verb) : prōfāno, āvi, ātum, 1, pro-fanum
* To bring any thing to a god before the temple, i. e. to dedicate, consecrate, offer in sacrifice (ante-class.): daps profanata,Cato, R. R. 50: profanato sine contagione,id. ib. 132: decimam Herculi, Massur. Sabin. ap. Macr. S. 3, 6: ad aram decimam bovum, Fest. s. v. potitium, p. 237 Müll.; Aur. Vict. Orig. Gent. Rom. 6: polluctum cum profanatum dicitur, id est proinde ut sit fani factum; itaque olim fano consumebatur omne quod profanum erat,Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll. (the passage is corrupt).

(verb) : prŏfāno, āvi, atum, 1, profanus.
* Lit., to render unholy, deprive of sanctity, to unhallow, desecrate, profane (perh. not ante - Aug.): dies festos, sacra, sacerdotes,Liv. 31, 44: sacrum,Ov. Am. 3, 9, 19: festum,id. M. 4, 390: sacra,Petr. 89: funus,Stat. Th. 9, 8: sabbata,Vulg. Ezech. 23, 38: justitias,id. Psa. 88, 32.
* Transf.
* To violate, pollute: pudorem,Curt. 5, 1, 38: os,Quint. 11, 1, 84: nomen,id. Decl. 10.
* To disclose, reveal, betray: secreta,App. M. 5, p. 164, 13: res profanata non valeat,Pall. 1, 35, 1.

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