a. 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored. [ 1913 Webster ]

All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]

Towards England's blessed shore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful. “Then was a blessed time.” “So blessed a disposition.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; as, the blessed in heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (R. C. Ch.) Beatified. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not a blessed man came to set her [ a boat ] free. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Happily; fortunately; joyfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Single blessedness, the unmarried state. “Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See Happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Thistle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing. [ 1913 Webster ]