I.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).
prōfāno , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. pro-fanum,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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