Blessed /(blĕs"ĕd)/
Bless·ed
Blessed
a.
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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.
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Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.
All generations shall call me blessed.
Towards England's blessed shore.
- Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
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Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven.
Reverenced like a blessed saint.
Cast out from God and blessed vision.
- Beatified. (R. C. Ch.)
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Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.