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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLESS'ED, pp. Made happy or prosperous; extolled; pronounced happy.
BLESS'ED, a. Happy; prosperous in worldly affairs; enjoying spiritual happiness and the favor of God; enjoying heavenly felicity.
Blessed-Thistle. A plant of the genus Cnicus, sometimes used in decoctions, for a bitter.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

also blest adjective Date: before 12th century 1. a. held in reverence ; venerated <the blessed saints> b. honored in worship ; hallowed <the blessed Trinity> c. beatific <a blessed visitation> 2. of or enjoying happiness; specifically enjoying the bliss of heaven — used as a title for a beatified person 3. bringing pleasure, contentment, or good fortune 4. — used as an intensive <never had one blessed minute of instruction — Charles Scribner Jr.> • blessedly adverb • blessedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also poet. blest) 1 a consecrated (Blessed Sacrament). b revered. 2 (usu. foll. by with) often iron. fortunate (in the possession of) (blessed with good health; blessed with children). 3 euphem. cursed; damned (blessed nuisance!). 4 a in paradise. b RC Ch. a title given to a dead person as an acknowledgement of his or her holy life; beatified. 5 bringing happiness; blissful (blessed ignorance). Derivatives: blessedly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If someone is blessed with a particular good quality or skill, they have that good quality or skill. Both are blessed with uncommon ability to fix things. ADJ: v-link ADJ with n 2. You use blessed to describe something that you think is wonderful, and that you are grateful for or relieved about. Rainy weather brings blessed relief to hay fever victims. ADJ: ADJ n [approval] • blessedly Most British election campaigns are blessedly brief. ADV: usu ADV adj, also ADV with cl 3. see also bless

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bles'-ed (barukh): Where God is referred to, this word has the sense of "praise," as in 1Sa 25:32, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel." But where man is in mind it is used in the sense of "happy" or "favored," and most frequently so in the Psalms and the Gospels, as for example, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked" (Ps 1:1); "Blessed art thou among women" (Lu 1:42); "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Mt 5:3).

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Happy, beatified, blissful. 2. Holy, hallowed, sacred.

Moby Thesaurus

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