profanum

The 'profanum' fell back on the heretics who had occasioned the necessity.

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

But certainly he is traduced; for his words are noble and divine: Non deos vulgi negare profanum; sed vulgi opiniones diis applicare profanum.

The Essays 2007

For this very reason, "not all without distinction that is outside the temple profanum is fit to cross its threshold," my venerable predecessor Paul VI wisely said, commenting on a Decree of the Council of Trent.

What Does the Church Really Say about Music in Mass? Argent 2006

A promiscuous mob of the plebs and profanum vulgus of Gylingden beset the door, to see the ladies — the slim and the young in white muslins and artificial flowers, and their stout guardian angels, of maturer years, in satins and velvets, and jewels — some real, and some, just as good, of paste.

Wylder's Hand 2003

That the beautiful harmony of nature and the eternal fitness of things dramatic are not always preserved, is due to that _profanum vulgus_ which sometimes reverses the decisions of those dramatic divinities who sit enthroned, like the twelve Cæsars, in the sacred temple of criticism, as the inspired representatives of the press.

Mary Anderson J. M. Farrar

None the less was it a strange sight, as I say, to see the _profanum vulgus_ of the buyers of old furniture, and the still more numerous herd of the curious, looking on with very diversified feelings -- some with bitterness enough in their hearts -- pushing and tramping through those noble corridors and vast halls and secret cells, on which no profane gaze had rested for more than three hundred years.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

_Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo_, is the only law; while we are a chemical solution, our architecture is only a mechanical one.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

Is there not enough in such an ideal to kindle the enthusiasm of youth, which, sensible that the sacred flame of the beautiful is burning within, feels pity, and to the disdainful adage, _Odi profanum vulgus_, prefers this more humane saying, _Misereor super turbam_.

The Simple Life Charles Wagner

Horace, the _profanum vulgus_, and held yourself aloof from them, and so I suppose you would not go into political life.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

The mysteries of that vaulted chamber were seldom opened to the outer world; and passing the _profanum vulgus_ in its first bins, we listened with eager ears and watering mouths to recital of the pedigree and history of the dwellers within.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon