Part 1192

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Enjoying happiness or bliss; favored with blessings; happy; highly favored.</def>

<blockquote>All generations shall call me <b>blessed</b>. <i>Luke i. 48.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Towards England's <b>blessed</b> shore. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.</def> "Then was a <i>blessed</i> time." "So <i>blessed</i> a disposition."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Enjoying, or pertaining to, spiritual happiness, or heavenly felicity; <as>as, the <ex>blessed</ex> in heaven</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Reverenced like a <b>blessed</b> saint. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Cast out from God and <b>blessed</b> vision. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>Beatified.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.</def>

<blockquote>Not a <b>blessed</b> man came to set her [a boat] free. <i>R. D. Blackmore.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blessedly</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bless"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Happily; fortunately; joyfully.</def>

<blockquote>We shall <b>blessedly</b> meet again never to depart. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blessedness</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bless"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.</def>

<blockquote>The assurance of a future <b>blessedness</b>. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Single blessedness</col>, <cd>the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in <i>single blessedness<i>."</cd></cs>

<i>Shak.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Delight; beatitude; ecstasy. See <er>Happiness</er>.</syn>

<h1>Blessed thistle</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bless"ed this"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>See under <er>Thistle</er>.</def>

<h1>Blesser</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bless"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.</def>

<h1>Blessing</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Bless"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>bletsung</ets>. See <er>Bless</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of one who blesses.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.</def>

<blockquote>This is the <b>blessing</b>, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. <i>Deut. xxxiii. 1.</i></blockquote>