BLESSEDER
Adjective
blesseder
comparative form of blessed
Source: Wiktionary
BLESSED
Bless"ed, a.
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. 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. Imparting happiness or bliss; fraught with happiness; blissful;
joyful. "Then was a blessed time." "So blessed a disposition." Shak.
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. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: Beatified.
6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively.
Not a blessed man came to set her [a boat] free. R. D. Blackmore.
BLESS
Bless, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blessed or Blest; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blessing.] Etym: [OE. blessien, bletsen, AS. bletsian, bledsian,
bloedsian, fr. bl blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling
with blood. See Blood.]
1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3.
2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or
happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives
and him that takes. Shak.
It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may
continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )
3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a
blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14.
4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to
invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to
heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.
5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).
[Archaic] Holinshed.
6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]
7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy
name. Ps. ciii. 1.
8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3.
9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.]
And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser.
Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax.
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.
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.
To bless the doors from nightly harm. Milton.
– 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition