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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
blessed
adj 1: highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace);
"our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady
income" [syn: blessed, blest] [ant: cursed,
curst]
2: worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity"
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"; "an infernal
nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed,
damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn,
goddamned, infernal]
4: Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy
of veneration [syn: beatified, blessed]
5: enjoying the bliss of heaven
6: characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Bless \Bless\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blessedor 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
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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
--Gen. ii. 3.
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2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity
or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
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The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
--Shak.
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It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy
servant, that it may continue forever before thee.
--1 Chron.
xvii. 27 (R.
V. )
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3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to
invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
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Bless them which persecute you. --Rom. xii.
14.
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4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities
upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
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Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and
looking up to heaven, he blessed them. --Luke ix.
16.
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5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
[Archaic] --Holinshed.
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6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]
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7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
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Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within
me, bless his holy name. --Ps. ciii. 1.
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8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
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The nations shall bless themselves in him. --Jer.
iv. 3.
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9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.]
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And burning blades about their heads do bless.
--Spenser.
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Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest.
--Fairfax.
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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.
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Bless me! Bless us! an exclamation of surprise. --Milton.
To bless from, to secure, defend, or preserve from. "Bless
me from marrying a usurer." --Shak.
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To bless the doors from nightly harm. --Milton.
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To bless with, To be blessed with, to favor or endow
with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us
with health; we are blessed with happiness.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Blessed \Bless"ed\ (bl[e^]s"[e^]d), a.
1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration;
heavenly; holy.
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O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. --Milton.
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2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings;
happy; highly favored.
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All generations shall call me blessed. --Luke i. 48.
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Towards England's blessed shore. --Shak.
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3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness;
blissful; joyful. "Then was a blessed time." "So blessed a
disposition." --Shak.
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4. Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or
heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
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Reverenced like a blessed saint. --Shak.
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Cast out from God and blessed vision. --Milton.
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5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified.
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6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
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Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.
--R. D.
Blackmore.
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Thesaurus Results for blessed:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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