Profane /(?)/

1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.

   The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.

2. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.

   Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.

3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.

imp. & p. p. Profaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Profaning

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.

   The priests in the temple profane the sabbath.

2. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

   So idly to profane the precious time.