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1474 in M. Napier Mem. J. Napier of Merchiston (1834) 37 n. That quhar..scho schapis to procede agains him befor you in the spirituale courte..we..commendis, that the said action is prophane & is decidit & finaly endit befor the said lordis.

1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 241/1 The said..Mariage was made privaly and secretely,..in a private Chamber, a prophane place.

1549 Latimer's 2nd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (1869) To Rdr. 49 We myghte as well spende that tyme in reading of prophane hystories, of cantorburye tales, or a fit of Roben Hode.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 555/1 In a certeyne chappell not hallowed, or rather in a prophane cotage.

1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) i. 26 Scholers that came to learne his prophane sciences.

1609 J. Skene tr. Forme of Proces in Regiam Majestatem 109 b All civill actions, that hes not fidei, vel juramenti interpositionem, are civill, and profane: and therefore perteines not to the Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xliv. 337 To Consecrate, is in Scripture, to Offer, Give, or Dedicate..a man, or any other thing to God by separating it from common use..and thereby to change, not the thing Consecrated, but onely the use of it, from being Profane and common, to be Holy, and peculiar to Gods service.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 104 What you will; I will talk of..things Sacred, or things Prophanes.

1718 Free-thinker No. 6. 1 The most celebrated Examples of an Heroical Death in Prophane Story, are, Socrates amongst the Greeks [etc.].

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Archit. 83/1 Things sacred..appertain to the public worship:..things profane..regard the welfare and good of the Society.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. ii. xii. 100 The best guide to the knowledge of prophane history.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 96 He..shows..a regard to profane literature, unusual in the darker ages, and symptomatic of a more liberal taste.

1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 4 Not of the Bible only, but of those precious remains of profane literature.

1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 700/2 Whatever unhappy conditions existed were largely due to civil and profane influences or to the exercise of authority by ecclesiastics in civil spheres.

1949 K. Clark Landscape into Art i. 14 Images of a pleasant earthly life were a favourite motive of profane decoration throughout the fifteenth century.

1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 107/3 This..separates the sacred world within the shrine from the profane world outside.