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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blessed \Bless"ed\ (bl[e^]s"[e^]d), a. 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. --Milton. 2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. All generations shall call me blessed. --Luke i. 48. Towards England's blessed shore. --Shak. 3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. ``Then was a blessed time.'' ``So blessed a disposition.'' --Shak. 4. Enjoying, or pertaining to spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as the blessed in heaven. Reverenced like a blessed saint. --Shak. Cast out from God and blessed vision. --Milton. 5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified. 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free --R. D. Blackmore From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bless \Bless\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blessed}or {Blest}; p. pr & vb n. {Blessing}.] [OE. blessien bletsen AS bletsian bledsian bloedsian fr bl?d blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling with blood. See {Blood}.] 1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it --Gen. ii 3. 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon to grant divine favor to The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes --Shak. It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. --1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. ) 3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of to invoke a blessing upon -- applied to persons. Bless them which persecute you --Rom. xii. 14. 4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon to invoke or confer a blessing on -- as on food. Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them --Luke ix 16. 5. To make the sign of the cross upon to cross (one's self). [Archaic] --Holinshed. 6. To guard; to keep to protect. [Obs.] 7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me bless his holy name --Ps. ciii. 1. 8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. The nations shall bless themselves in him --Jer. iv 3. 9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.] And burning blades about their heads do bless. --Spenser. Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. --Fairfax. Note: This is an old sense of the word supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it ``In drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field.'' --Ascham. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: blessed adj 1: highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income" [syn: {blest}] [ant: {cursed}] 2: worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity" [syn: {Blessed}] 3: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted}, {blame}, {blamed}, {damn}, {damned}, {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}] 4: Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration [syn: {beatified}] 5: enjoying the bliss of heaven 6: characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time" 7: having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era" [syn: {blessed with(p)}, {endued with(p)}]
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