Bless"ed (bl&ebreve;s"&ebreve;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.
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