PROFANE Copy link • PROFANE 1. v. profanare, profanum dicere (in the best age only = to confound divine things with human, sacred with common; opposed to sacrum esse velle: in later writers = general term to violate): exaugurare (to recal a thing from sacred to common use; opposed to inaugurare; Vid: Liv., 1, 55): polluere: maculare (to dishonor what is sacred or pure): violare (general term for any breach of what is due to anything, templa). 2. adj., profanus. A profane person, homo profanus (general term): homo impius (godless): profane history, *historia rerum a populis gestarum; but perhaps profana historia necessary as technical term; opposed to sacra historia.