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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bless \Bless\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blessed}or {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 [1913 Webster] And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. --Gen. ii. 3. [1913 Webster] 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to. [1913 Webster] The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. --Shak. [1913 Webster] It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. --1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. ) [1913 Webster] 3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. [1913 Webster] Bless them which persecute you. --Rom. xii. 14. [1913 Webster] 4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food. [1913 Webster] Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. --Luke ix. 16. [1913 Webster] 5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster] 6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences. [1913 Webster] Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. --Ps. ciii. 1. [1913 Webster] 8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate. [1913 Webster] The nations shall bless themselves in him. --Jer. iv. 3. [1913 Webster] 9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And burning blades about their heads do bless. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] To bless the doors from nightly harm. --Milton. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blessed \Bless"ed\ (bl[e^]s"[e^]d), 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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: 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"