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Entry 6 senses Webster, 1913

Blessed

/(blĕs"ĕd)/ · Bless·ed · IPA /ˈblɛsɪd/
01 a. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy.
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful; joyful.
  4. 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. 5.
    Beatified.(R. C. Ch.)
  6. 6.
    Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
    “Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free.” — R. D. Blackmore.