Word Finder - blessing

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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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Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.

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A pronouncement invoking divine aid.

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Good fortune.

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A modern pagan ceremony.

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The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.

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We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.

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Something someone is glad of.

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After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.

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A prayer before a meal; grace.

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A group of unicorns.

He taught, also, that a friend is the greatest blessing that any one can have.

My blessing, and may Christ be with you in your great endeavor!

So you see what a blessing speech is to me.

On the contrary, they see that a manifest blessing has rested on women's preaching, and they regard its almost universal prohibition as a relic of the seclusion of women which was customary in the countries where Christianity took its rise.

Savonarola prayed with the two men, gave them his blessing, and exhorted them.

Finish it with my blessing.

With your blessing, I plan to ask Elisabeth to marry me.

The simplex is worn on Good Friday, and at masses for the dead; also at the blessing of the candles at Candlemas, the singing of the absolution at the coffin, and the solemn investiture with the pallium.

Violet vestments are also worn on days of intercession, at votive masses of the Passion, at certain other masses of a pronouncedly intercessory and penitential character, at intercessory processions, at the blessing of candles on Candlemas Day, and at the blessing of the baptismal water.

This great work of reconstruction was only one feature of the literary activity which marked the I7th and 18th centuries, when, under Tokugawa rule, the blessing of long-unknown peace came to the nation.

In Rome the pope gave way to popular clamour, granting one concession after another, and on the 8th of February he publicly called down Gods blessing on Italythat Italy hated by the Austrians, whose name it had hitherto been a crime to mention.

In the usage of the Catholic Church, both East and West, though the benediction as defined above has its place as between one Christian and another, it has also a special place in the sacramental system in virtue of the special powers of blessing vested in the priesthood.

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.

In the reformed Churches the word "benediction" is technically confined to the blessing with which the priest or minister dismisses the congregation at the close of the service.

Of these water is the commonest, and its efficacy is enhanced if it be running, and still more if a magical or sacramental virtue has been imparted to it by ritual blessing or consecration.

In general it is laid down (cap. i.) that the priest, in benedictions outside the Mass, shall be vested in surplice and stole, and shall give the blessing standing and bare-headed.

In the blessing of the holy water (cap. ii.), the essential instrument of all benedictions, the object is clearly to establish its potency against evil spirits.

The blessing of the Bread and Cup, as an incident in a feast of Christian brotherhood, is all that the Didache has in common with Paul and the Synoptists.

Alex and Carmen turned over the insurance money to her, with the blessing of the entire family.

Their loss strengthened their faith in God and soon realized that having children was a blessing.

The meteor shower changed the town landscape, leaving families wounded and forever altered, while blessing one childless couple, the Kents, with a son.

These fakes come about in a number of ways and sometimes with the actor's blessing.

Among the many miseries .nflicted upon Italy by the frequent changes of her northern rulers, this at least may be reckoned a blessing.

The power to bless in this ecclesiastical sense is reserved to priests alone; the blessing of the paschal candle on Holy Saturday by the deacon being the one exception that proves the rule, for he uses for the purpose grains of incense previously blessed by the priest at the altar.

Both by Catholics and by Protestants blessings may be applied to things inanimate as well as animate; but while in the reformed Churches this involves no more than an appeal to God for a special blessing, or a solemn "setting apart" of persons or objects for sacred purpoes, in the Catholic idea it implies a special power, conferred by God, of the priests over the invisible forces of evil.

Marr of the Grusian (Georgian) text, and he added to it (Leipzig, 1904) a translation of various small exegetical pieces, which are preserved in a Georgian version only (The Blessing of Jacob, The Blessing of Moses, The Narrative of David and Goliath).

The origin of the ceremony of blessing the palms is more obscure.

In the formulae of blessings that follow, the special efficacy against devils is implied by the aspersion with holy water; the benedictions themselves are usually merely invocative of the divine protection or assistance, though, e.g., in the form for blessing sick animals the priest prays that "all diabolic power in them may be destroyed, and that they may be ill no longer."

The children masquerade, and their parents are enjoined to drink wine until they cannot distinguish between blessing Mordecai and cursing Haman.

The elaborate system of education, culminating in the reconstituted, or new-founded, universities of Dorpat, Vilna, Kazan and Kharkov, was strangled in the supposed interests of " order " and of orthodox piety; while the military colonies which Alexander proclaimed as a blessing to both soldiers and state were forced on the unwilling peasantry and army with pitiless cruelty.

With a little more wit we might use these materials so as to become richer than the richest now are, and make our civilization a blessing.

The father and mother came into the room and gave the betrothed couple their blessing.

So go, with God's blessing!

For many Christians, blessing same-sex partnerships would be the final nail in the coffin for " family values " in our society !

Emily moved to Las Vegas to pursue her career and build a relationship with a new boyfriend, all with her family's blessing.

You really must look at the positive side of things and what you have is a blessing.

In the future, robots will probably take a more intelligent and free-thinking approach to completing tasks, which can either be a blessing or a hindrance, depending on your opinion or robots.

One blessing is found in the fact oily skin tends to age more slowly than any other skin type.

The Catholic church has also recently embraced the Internet, giving it its "blessing" and urging individuals to use the World Wide Web as a "force for unity."

That is both the blessing and curse of JavaScript - while it can be quite useful and enriching, it can also be annoying and malicious.

The fact that the web is a truly global marketplace is both a blessing and a curse for web sites.

The open nature of the Dreamweaver Exchange is both a blessing and a curse.

They might at the outset either have let the trek Boers go, and given them their blessing and liberty, or they might have controlled the trek and ' Part of the territory thus reannexed was added to Cape Colony while the region between the Keiskamma and Kei was created a separate territory under the name of British Kaffraria.

In this incomparable work St Anne, pointing upward with her left hand, smiles with an intense look of wondering, questioning, inward sweetness into the face of the Virgin, who in her turn smiles down upon her child as He leans from her lap to give the blessing to the little St John standing beside her.

The custom of blessing the candles for the whole year on this day, whence the name Candlemas is derived, did not come into common use until the i 1 th century.

Methuselah asks Enoch's blessing before he departs, and to all his sons and their families Enoch gives fresh instruction.

He thus gained the blessing intended for the first-born, and Esau, on hearing how he had been forestalled, vowed to kill him.

The same mouth can pronounce a blessing or a curse.

The last day of any season is always a mixed blessing.

A praising, thankful heart is a blessing in itself.