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impious, a.|ˈɪmpɪəs|
[f. L. impi-us without reverence (f. im-, im-2 + pius) + -ous: cf. OF. impieux, -euse (15–16th c. in Godef.); mod.F. has impie (in Cotgr. 1611), ad. L. impi-us.]
1. Not pious; without piety or reverence for God and his ordinances; presumptuously irreligious, wicked, or profane:
a. of persons, or things personified.
15941st Pt. Contention (1843) 31 Impious Yorke, and Bewford.. Have all lymde bushes to betraie thy wings. 1624Gataker Transubst. 27 And who is so impious..as to eate thus that which he thinketh to be God? a1704T. Brown Dk. Ormond's Recov. Wks. 1730 I. 50 E'er impious plow to wound the earth began. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. vii. (1875) 266 The Sunis recognise Abu Bekr, Omar and Othman..and regard the Shiahs as impious heretics. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 319 The impious, whoever he may be, ought not to go unpunished.
b. of actions, sayings, and the like.
1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 199 If magistrates should command that which is impious..we have our answer well warranted:..‘It is better to obey God than men’. 1638Sir. T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 338 To touch their mouths or meat with fingers is held absurd and impious. 1667Milton P.L. v. 813 Canst thou with impious obloquie condemne The just Decree of God? 1718Prior Pleasure 902 At Dagon's shrine I kindle impious flame. 1845Maurice Mor. Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. II. 638/1 An impious disregard of all the processes of his education.
2. Wanting in natural reverence and dutifulness, esp. to parents. rare.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 351 The Caspii shut up their parents..and there in respect of pietie (what more could the impious doe?) starve them to death. 1783Morell Ainsworth's Lat. Dict. iv. s.v. Tullia, The impious daughter of Servius Tullius..drove her chariot over the body of her aged father. |