Word Finder - blessed

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To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify.

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To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify.

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To invoke divine favor upon.

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To honor as holy, glorify; to extol for excellence.

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To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

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To wave; to brandish.

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(past tense only blessed) To turn (a reference) into an object.

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(with from) To secure, defend, or prevent from.

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Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.

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A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.

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Held in veneration; revered.

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Worthy of worship; holy.

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An intensifier; damned.

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Not one blessed person offered to help me out.

God has truly blessed us.

The country to the east and south-east of the Aravallis affords a striking contrast to the sandy plains on the north-west of the range, and is blessed with fertile lands, hill-ranges and long stretches of forest, where fuel and fodder are abundant.

They shared a rare bond, and felt blessed to have each other.

And when he had blessed them, all began to sing; and the whole forest was filled with sweetness and joy because of their wonderful melodies.

And, if practice makes perfect, Ouray, blessed with a beautiful but long winter season, gave its citizens ample opportunity to do just that.

As for Fred, he was downright ecstatic about a baby in his adopted family—hang the underlying circumstances of the blessed event.

The picture of the Blessed Virgin and Child, which De Rossi ascribed to the 2nd, if not to the 1st century, has received an unexpected proof of its antiquity.

Valdemar cheerfully undertook a new crusade "for the honour of the Blessed Virgin and the remission of my own sins."

The Hertz's had not been blessed with children and were adamant that they would love taking care of the twins.

A part of her still believed it was playing god, though obviously God blessed the twins.

The Lenkoran district, sometimes called Talysh, on the western side of the Kizil-Agach bay, is blessed with a rich vegetation, a fertile soil, and a moist climate.

The petite brunette had certainly been blessed with her share of beauty.

The other form, which was probably a relic of the conception of Yahweh as the author of natural fertility, was that part of the fruits of the earth should be offered to God in acknowledgment of His bounty, and that what was so offered was especially blessed and brought a blessing upon both those who offered it and those who afterwards partook of it.

It is the poor who are blessed not self-righteous prigs.

The Friars of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel or Carmelites or Whitefriars came to London in 1241, and made their home on land between Fleet Street and the Thames given by Edward I.

The " blessed hope " is the victory of lunacy over reason.

Here is Avalon, island of the blessed dead, gateway to the spirit realm.

And this week there is a feeling of blessed relief in our town.

The words of the Blessed Saint Michael Collier still resound.

My brother Taylor read prayers, and assisted at the truly blessed sacrament.

Let them therefore not be ordained nor blessed with these prayers.

With all filial reverence devoutly do we kiss your blessed feet.

Bridgett (Wisdom and Wit of Blessed Thomas More, London, 1891).

Blessed is He Whose Portrait was drawn by the prophets The twelve children of Jacob proclaim the apostles.

Forever cursed (Or blessed) With memories Lagging behind... savoring the moments Or reliving the nightmares Like a lazy wanderer.

Most days were blessed by a sun that warmed you enough that a couple of heavy sweaters were more than adequate outer wear.

Besides the State papers, the main sources for his biography are The Life and Death of that renowned John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (London, 1655), by an anonymous writer, the best edition being that of Van Ortroy (Brussels, 1893) Bridgett's Life of Blessed John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester (London, 1880 and 1890); and Thureau, Le bienheureux Jean Fisher (Paris, 1907).

Robert Southey never forgot how Wesley kissed his little sister and put his hand on his head and blessed him.

If he has a balance of good works in his favour, he passes forthwith into paradise (Garo demana) and the blessed life.

It is to be remarked that the "laying on of hands," which in the Old and the New Testament alike is the usual "form" of blessing, is not used in liturgical benedictions, the priest being directed merely to extend his right hand towards the person to be blessed.

Fortunately, too, at this crisis of their history, the Lithuanians were blessed with an altogether exceptional series of great rulers, who showed themselves fully capable of taking care of themselves.

His tomb in St Peter's acquired fame for miraculous cures, and he was pronounced blessed by Pius IX.

In ancient Rome the Di manes, or as we should say the blessed dead, who reposed in their necropolis outside the walls, were specially commemorated on the dies parentales or days of placating them (placandis Manibus).

They prayed for the auditores, they blessed them and interceded for them, thereby shortening the process of purification the latter had to pass through after death.

It is assumed above that the name Serapis (so written in later Greek and in Latin, in earlier Greek Sarapis) is derived from the Egyptian Userhapi - as it were Osiris-Apis - the name of the bull Apis, dead and, like all the blessed dead, assimilated to Osiris,.

Introits were provided for use on every Sunday and Holy-Day; after the offertory intending communicants were directed to " tarry still in the quire or in some convenient place nigh the quire "; in the prayer " for the whole state of Christ's church," the blessed Virgin Mary was commemorated by name among departed saints; prayer for the departed was explicitly retained; also an invocation of the Holy Spirit before the words of institution, the prayer of oblation immediately following them.

The chief of these subsidiary chapels, that of the Blessed Virgin (or Lady chapel), behind the high altar, was often of large size.

Having, however, in consequence, lost his professorship at Jena, he gradually altered his views, until at length he decided that God is not mere moral order, but also reason and will, yet without consciousness and personality; that not mankind but God is the absolute; that we are only its direct manifestations, free but finite spirits destined by God to posit in ourselves Nature as the material of duty, but blessed when we relapse into the absolute; that Nature, therefore, is the direct manifestation of man, and only the indirect manifestation of God; and, finally, that being is the divine idea or life, which is the reality behind appearances.

Even at the present day, in spite of a decree of the Congregation of Rites (27th of May 1697) ordering it to be placed over all altars, it is - even at Rome itself - usually only found over the high altar and the altar of the Blessed Sacrament.

And when it was considered that he had made sufficient advancement in his military accomplishments, he took his sword to the priest, who laid it on the altar, blessed it, and returned it to him.4 Afterwards he either remained with his early master, relegating most of his domestic duties to his younger companions, or he entered the service of some valiant and adventurous lord or 1 Sainte Palaye, Memoires, i.

A blessed immortality after judgment, or even after death itself, is sometimes taught without reference to any resurrection.

There is no longer a procession; but the palms (in Russia willow twigs) are blessed, and are held by the worshippers during the service.

Urban VIII., while forbidding the rendering of a public cultus without authorization from the Holy See, made an exception in favour of the blessed who were at that time (1625) in possession of an immemorial cultus, i.e.

Only in the event of the claimant passing this test successfully can the essential part of the procedure be begun, which will result in conferring on the Venerable the title of "Blessed."

In the ceremony of beatification the essential part consists in the reading of the pontifical brief, placing the Venerable in the rank of the Blessed, which is done during a solemn mass, celebrated with special rites in the great hall above the vestibule of the basilica of St Peter.

It consists principally in the discussion of the miracles (usually two in number) obtained by the intercession of the Blessed since the decree of beatification.

On the 1st of January 1861 the standards of the new regiments were solemnly blessed; on the next day Frederick William IV.

It is on Maundy Thursday that in the Church of Rome the sacred oil is blessed, and the chrism prepared according to an elaborate ritual which is given in the Pontificale.

And such bread is called bread blessed, although no one believes that out of it is made the body of Christ.

The question whether a crucifix or rood standing alone or combined with figures of the Blessed Virgin and St John can, in any circumstances, be regarded as merely decorative, has given rise to a difference of judicial opinion and appears to be unsettled."